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Gramma's Chocolate Cookies
Author/Submitted by:
Kathie Janger, Co-author of Knowing Beans About Coffee, McLean, VA
Servings: 36
Categories:
Chocolate
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Cookies
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Desserts
Ingredients: 1
cup
Brown sugar 1/2
cup
Butter or margarine 1
Egg 1/2
cup
Cocoa 1 1/2
cups
Flour 1/2
teaspoon
Baking soda 1/2
cup
Milk 1
teaspoon
Vanilla 1/2
cup
Chopped walnuts 1
cup
Confectioner's sugar 2
tablespoons
Cocoa 1/2
teaspoon
Vanilla 2
tablespoons
Butter
Milk
Directions:
1.
Preheat oven to 350.
2.
In a large bowl, combine brown sugar and butter; mix well. Beat egg and add to creamed mixture; mix well. Add cocoa and mix.
3.
In a separate bowl, measure flour and baking soda. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to egg and cocoa mixture. Stir in vanilla and chopped nuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks and let cool.
4.
While cookies are baking, make icing by combining all ingredients. Thin with a little milk if icing is too thick.
5.
When cookies have cooled, frost with chocolate icing.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, was as delectable as these cookies that my grandmother taunted us with.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, was as delectable as these cookies that my grandmother taunted us with.
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