Frosted Chocolate Mocha Bites

• 1 cup sugar
• 12 cup cocoa (Dutch-processed makes richer cookies)
• 23 cup canola oil
• 1 egg
• 2 14 cups flour
• 1 12 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 12 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 pinch salt
• 34 cup plain yogurt
• 14 cup espresso
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 34 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 tablespoon melted butter
• 1 cup sifted powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon cocoa
• 3 tablespoons espresso (hot)
• 1 pinch salt
• 14 teaspoon vanilla
• 14 cup finely chopped walnuts

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Farenheit.
2. For the cookies, combine sugar and cocoa in a medium bowl, then stir in oil and mix until well-blended.
3. Beat in egg.
4. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in one bowl and the yogurt, espresso and vanilla in another.
5. Alternate adding these mixtures, a little at a time, into the chocolate mixture.
6. When fully mixed, fold in the walnuts.
7. Drop onto a cookie sheet in mounds about the size of walnuts.
8. Bake for 8-10 minutes@ 375 degrees, or until the top of the cookies start to crack.
9. Remove and cool on wire racks.
10. Make the glaze, mixing the butter, powdered sugar& cocoa, then beating in the espresso, salt& vanilla.
11. Drizzle over the cooled cookies (for a no-mess solution, pour it into a plastic sandwich bag and poke a hole in one corner!)
12. Then, before glaze sets, sprinkle with finely chopped walnuts.

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/frosted-chocolate-mocha-bites-51508 (may not work)