Chocolate Italian Spice Cookies
From christinem 15 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 60
I love the smell of cocoa and spices wafting from the oven...these are my version of Italian "Meatball" Cookies, traditionally made at Christmas, and inspired by one of those "a little of this, a pinch of that" recipes from my friend's grandma.
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar shopping list
- 1/2 cup cocoa shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda shopping list
- 3 tbsp. baking powder shopping list
- 5 cups flour shopping list
- 2 tsp. cinnamon shopping list
- 2 tsp. ground cloves shopping list
- 2 tsp. nutmeg shopping list
- 1 tsp. salt shopping list
- 1 cup chopped walnuts shopping list
- 3 cups (18 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chips shopping list
- 3 eggs, slightly beaten shopping list
- 1/2 cup corn or canola oil shopping list
- 2/3 cup milk shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, mix together the granulated sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, flour, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, salt. Stir in walnuts and chocolate chips.
- In a separate bowl combine eggs, oil and milk.
- Add egg mixture to dry ingredients and mix together until a firm dough is formed. (Start mixing by spoon, but switch over to using your hands - you will almost have to knead it to get the wet and dry ingredients thoroughly combined, but they WILL come together!)
- With lightly oiled hands, roll dough into 1 1/2" balls. (Note: The verbal recipe indicated "roll into walnut-sized balls", but I think my walnuts are bigger than hers! :) I like to go with about 1 1/2" balls - they will puff up a bit, so use your discretion.)
- Place on greased cookie sheet and bake 10 to 12 minutes; let cool 3 to 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- FOR ICING: Combine 2 cups confectioner's sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla extract and enough milk to make a thin (but not too thin) icing (approximately 2 tbsp.). Mix until smooth and drizzle over cooled cookies or dip tops of cookies into icing and let stand until dry.
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Whisk or stir together
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Add chocolate chips and nuts
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