Chocolate Butter Cookies

Name: Chocolate Butter Cookies
Ingredients: 20 tablespoons (2½ sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 1/2 cup (1½ ounces/43 grams), unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon, instant espresso powder; 1 cup (7 ounces/198 grams), sugar; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 2 , large egg yolks; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cups (11¼ ounces/319 grams), unbleached all-purpose flour; 4 ounces (113 grams), bittersweet chocolate; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 tablespoons, corn syrup; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate
Cookies
Holiday

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2005

Chocolate butter cookies usually taste bland or surrender their crisp, delicate appeal to a chewy, brownie-like texture. How about great flavor and great texture?

SERVES Makes about 48 cookies

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 45 minutes chilling and 20 minutes cooling

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