Chocolate Cookies

Name: Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients: Ingredients for basic butter cookies; 1/2 cup Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 10 1/2 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), melted and cooled; Garnish: salted roasted pistachios, finely ground; Demerara sugar

5 ingredients

4 steps

Ingredients

Ingredients for basic butter cookies
1/2 cup Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
10 1/2 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), melted and cooled
Garnish: salted roasted pistachios, finely ground; Demerara sugar

Directions

1

Follow recipe for basic butter cookies, mixing in cocoa, baking soda, and melted chocolate after adding flour (dough will be stiff).
2

Form dough into a 14-inch log (2 inches in diameter) on a sheet of plastic wrap and roll up dough.
3

(Dough will be hard to slice and may crumble.)
4

If garnishing, roll edges of each slice first in pistachios and then in Demerara sugar.