Chocolate Pinon Cookies
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2/3 cup grated semisweet chocolate
- 1 cup pine nuts, toasted and lightly chopped
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Powdered sugar
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- With an electric mixer, in a mediumsize bowl, cream the butter and sugar.
- Stir in the vanilla, grated chocolate, and pine nuts.
- Mix in the flour and salt.
- Chill the dough.
- When ready to bake, roll out the dough, on a floured surface, to a 1/4inch thickness.
- Cut out the cookies with a 2inch round cookie cutter.
- Gather the scraps together and reroll the dough to cut out more cookies.
- Place slightly apart on a nonstick baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes, or until the cookies are dry and firm.
- When cool, dust the cookies with the powdered sugar.
butter, sugar, vanilla, grated semisweet chocolate, pine nuts, cake flour, salt, powdered sugar
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chocolate-pinon-cookies-recipe.html (may not work)