Black and White Cookies
- 1/3 cup cream
- 7 ounces dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 (18-ounce) package sugar cookie dough
- Place a small pan over medium heat.
- Add the cream and warm until almost boiling, about 3 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and add the chocolate.
- Stir for 1 to 2 minutes until the chocolate melts.
- Place the chocolate mixture into a small bowl.
- Cool the chocolate until firm enough to roll into balls.
- (To cool quickly, place the chocolate in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.)
- Once the chocolate is firm, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Place the sugar in an empty pie dish.
- Roll the chocolate into teaspoon-sized balls and set aside.
- Roll a walnut-sized ball of cookie dough into a thin log about 3 inches long.
- Place a chocolate ball on a work surface and wrap a cookie dough log around the chocolate ball and press to adhere.
- It should look like a cookie version of the planet Saturn.
- Roll the cookie in the sugar to coat.
- Place the cookie on a large baking sheet and continue forming
- the remaining cookies and rolling them in sugar.
- Once all the cookie balls are on the baking sheets, use the bottom of a drinking glass to flatten the cookies to about 1/4 inch thick.
- Bake the cookies for 15 minutes.
- Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool, then serve.
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Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/black-and-white-cookies-recipe0.html (may not work)