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CHOCOLATE CRACKLE COOKIES
I got this from a magazine ad for Nestles and have been making them for as long as I can remember. I even made them for the food table when Bill and I were married.
I use Nestles for the chocolate chips - they should be fresh for best results!
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/3 cup salad oil (I use Wesson)
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 Cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
½ cup to 1 cup confectioner's sugar
Melt chocolate (I melt in microwave).
In large mixing bowl combine sugar and oil. Beat in chocolate mixture.
Add eggs one at a time beating after each addition. Add vanilla.
In another bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add to chocolate mixture.
Stir in nuts. Cover dough and chill – in the freezer if you want to bake them quickly or in the refrigerator if you are going to wait several hours or longer. The dough has to be chilled enough so it is firm.
When ready to bake cookies preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease cookie sheets. (Only necessary to grease each cookie sheet once, will be fine for the next batches without greasing again.) The last time I made them I skipped greasing the cookie sheets and used parchment instead!
Roll teaspoonfuls of dough into balls (they will be about the size of walnuts) and roll in powdered sugar until well coated.
Bake 10-12 minutes. Do not under-bake or over-bake.
Recipe says it makes 4 dozen cookies but I've never gotten more than 3 dozen. Probably I should work on the walnut-size a little better.
STORY ON THE RIGHT SIDE:
Even though this didn't happen to us, I read it in a cooking magazine (biggest kitchen bloopers column) and it gave me such a giggle that I wanted to include it.
A woman made a quick trip to the store for several ingredients for cookies she was baking for a school bake sale along with a few things that were on her grocery list. She unpacked the perishables and the items she needed to bake the cookies.
She made 6 beautiful batches of chocolate chip cookies, not allowing anyone to sample them – they were all for the bake sale.
Once she boxed them up she put away the bag of groceries she left on the counter and found the PAM cooking spray she had bought specifically for the cookies since she was completely out of it. Imagine her surprise when she looked in her pantry to find a spray can of tick and flea powder on the shelf.
Yep, she had used the tick and flea spray thinking it was cooking spray and sprayed the cookie sheets with it. Needless to say – she had to throw all the cookies out and bake 6 more batches of cookies!
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