Spicy Chocolate Coins Recipe

Spicy Chocolate Coins Notes

This recipe comes to us from Nancy Brussat of Convito Italiano Cafe and Market.

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/3 cup Dutched cocoa
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 pound butter, softened
• 1 cup confectioner's sugar
• 2 eggs
• Topping One:
• 2 teaspoons Maldon sea salt
• 2 tablespoons bacon, cooked and crumbled
• Topping Two:
• 1 tablespoon ginger nibs
• Topping Three:
• 2 tablespoons Strawberry-Vanilla Sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper

Serves / Yields

About 6 dozen cookies.

Preparation Instructions

Sift the flour, cocoa powder, cayenne and salt together into a bowl. Mix well. In a mixer, cream the butter with the sugar until creamy (low speed). Add the egg and continue beating until mixed well. Add the dry ingredients and incorporate into the mixture.

Divide into 3 sections and form each into a ball. On 3 separate parchment sheets roll each ball into 3 cylinders about 12 inches long and 2 inches thick. Freeze each parchment wrapped cylinder for approximately 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

Take from freezer and slice each cylinder into approximately 24 cookies about 1/2 inch thick. Arrange the cookies on the baking sheets leaving about 1 inch between cookies.

Sprinkle each of the above toppings on 1/3 of the cookies. (You can choose 1 topping and multiply it by 3 and make the whole batch with just one topping if you choose)

Bake for 12 minutes until cookies are firm. Cool.

Credit

This recipe was provided by Nancy Brussat from .