Chocolate Butter Cookies

Name: Chocolate Butter Cookies
Yield: Makes about 48 cookies
Ingredients: 20 tablespoons (2 1/2 sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 1/2 cup (1½ ounces), unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon, instant espresso powder; 1 cup (7 ounces), sugar; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 2 , large egg yolks; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cups (11¼ ounces), unbleached all-purpose flour; 4 ounces, bittersweet chocolate; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 tablespoons, corn syrup; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2005

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Chocolate butter cookies usually taste bland or surrender their crisp, delicate appeal to a chewy, brownie-like texture. How about great flavor and great texture?

SERVESMakes about 48 cookies

TIME1¼ hours, plus 45 minutes chilling and 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

On the butter cookie plate, the chocolate cookie, with its rich, dark color, is often the most alluring of the bunch. Sadly, though, a cookie that looks like it's made from chocolate doesn't necessarily taste like it's made from chocolate. ...

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