Chocolate Cookie Recipes - Chocolate Chip Cookies - Delicious Chocolate Ideas

Beat to a cream half a cupful of butter and one tablespoonful of lard. Gradually beat into this one cupful of sugar; then add one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, and two ounces of Walter Baker & Co.'s Premium No. 1 Chocolate, melted. Now add one well-beaten egg, and half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of milk. Stir in about two cupfuls and a half of flour. Roll thin, and, cutting in round cakes, bake in a rather quick oven. The secret of making good chocolate cookies is the use of as little flour as will suffice.

Cream the butter, add the sugar, eggs, the cream, and vanilla. Sift the baking powder, salt, mace, and flour together and add these to the mixture. Roll about 1/4 inch thick and cut. Bake in a hot oven.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl stir together flour cocoa salt baking powder and baking soda. In a mixing bowl beat together butter and sugar on low speed of electric mixer until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Stir in dry ingredients; mix well. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; place on ungreased cookie sheet. Press in center and place drained cherry in center of each cookie. In small saucepan combine chocolate chips and milk until chocolate is melted (or heat in microwave oven). Stir in 1 tablespoon of drained liquid from cherries. Spoon 1 tablespoon of chocolate/milk mixture over each cherry. Bake for 10 minutes.

Chocolate Pecan Cookies ~granulated sugar - pecan halves Mix sugar and butter blending well. Add egg yolks and vanilla. Melt chocolate. Sift salt soda baking powder and flour together. Beat egg whites; set aside. Blend dry ingredients with butter mixture adding chocolate then egg whites. Refrigerate overnight. Roll teaspoonfuls in tight balls roll in granulated sugar. Press on greased cookie sheet. Top with pecan half in center. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Yields about 4 dozen.