I’ve had the biggest chocolate craving lately. It must be my belly can sense Halloween is coming. I didn’t want to buy candy early, though, for fear I’d eat it all before the tricker treaters came (like last year.) So, I made this recipe for light chocolate sugar cookies. I love love love them; crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, made with ingredients I already have in my house, super easy, low cal, cookie perfection. They are not as rich as these chocolate sugar cookies I made this weekend, but still delightful.
Chocolate Icebox Cookies:
3/4 C flour
1/4 C unsweetened cocoa
1/4 t baking soda
1/4 t kosher salt
1/4 C butter, softened
2/3 C sugar
1 t vanilla extract
1 large egg white
- Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set it aside. Beat butter in a mixer with the paddle attachment until light and fluffy. Gradually add the sugar and beat until well blended. Add vanilla and egg white, beat well. Add flour mixture; stir until well blended. Turn dough out onto plastic wrap and form into a disk. Refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Roll the dough out with some flour till it is about 1/4 inch thick, or less. Cut out cookies. Place them 1 inch apart on a parchment lined cookie sheet (or silpat), and bake for 8-10 minutes.
- 61 calories, 2 grams of fat
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