Glazed Chocolate-Mint Cookies

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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 4 dozen 2 1/2-inch cookies

TIME 2 hours, plus 20 minutes cooling and 40 minutes drying

Glazed Chocolate-Mint Cookies

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To cram big chocolate flavor into a tender, crisp chocolate butter cookie recipe, we found that cocoa powder—with a much higher percentage of cocoa solids than other forms of chocolate—was clearly the best candidate. So we doubled the amoun...

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