Chocolate Butter Cookies

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2005

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?

SERVES Makes about 48 cookies

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 45 minutes chilling and 20 minutes cooling

Chocolate Butter Cookies

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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