Recipe courtesy of Nick Malgieri
Chocolate Fudge Cookies
- Total: 3 hr 15 min
- Prep: 3 hr
- Cook: 15 min
- Yield: 60 cookies
- 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
