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Recipe courtesy of Nick Malgieri

Show: Cooking Live

Episode: Nick Malgieri-Basics of Cookies

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Total:: 3 hr 15 min
Prep:: 3 hr
Cook:: 15 min

Yield:: 60 cookies

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
5 ounces unsweetened chocolate
8 tablespoon (1 stick) unsalted butter
4 large eggs
Pinch of salt
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon dark rum
Confectioners' sugar
Several cookies sheets or jelly-roll pans lined with parchment or foil

Directions

Mix together flour and baking powder and set aside.

Bring a pan of water to a boil and remove from heat. Combine chocolate and butter in a heat proof bowl and set over pan of water, stirring occasionally until melted.

In a large bowl, whisk eggs with salt , then whisk in both sugars. Whisk in chocolate mixture, then rum.

Stir in flour to form a soft dough. Scrape dough onto a piece of plastic wrap and wrap tightly. Chill 2 hours.

Set racks in upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Flour your hands and rool the chilled dough into 2-teaspoon balls. They don't have to be too neat. Roll each ball in confectioners' sugar. Arrange well apart on prepared pans and bake about 12 minutes. cool pans on a rack before removing cookies from pan

My Private Notes

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Yield: 60 cookies
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 5 ounces unsweetened chocolate; 8 tablespoon (1 stick) unsalted butter; 4 large eggs; Pinch of salt; 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar; 1 cup granulated sugar; 1 tablespoon dark rum; Confectioners' sugar; Several cookies sheets or jelly-roll pans lined with parchment or foil