Shelly's Recipe

CHOCOLATE CRACKLE COOKIES

Category: Cookies

1/4 cup butter
3 (1 oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate, chopped
3 (1 oz.) squares semisweet chocolate, chopped
1-1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
2 cups flour
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Powdered sugar

Melt together butter and chocolates in heavy saucepan. Remove from heat and beat in sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs, once at a time, and mix each until incorporated. Beat for 1 minute. Add dry ingredients and walnuts and mix well. Cover dough and chill for at least 2 hours before continuing with recipe.

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Roll each in powdered sugar and place on cookie sheets. Bake for 15-22 minutes, until cookies are just set. The cookies will spread out as they bake, into the typical cookie shape and size, and the powdered sugar will create a crinkled, or cracked look.

Do not over bake. Let cookies cool on cookie sheet for 3 minutes, then remove to wire racks to cool. 36 cookies