Award Winning Chocolate Truffle Cookies

Total Time: 3 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• 4 (1 ounce) unsweetened chocolate squares
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided
• 1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons baking cocoa
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• confectioners' sugar

Recipe

• 1 in a microwave or double broiler, melt unsweetened chocolate, 1 cup (6 oz.) chocolate chips, and butter; cool for 10 minutes.
• 2 in a mixing bowl, beat sugar and eggs for two minutes. beat in vanilla and the cooled chocolate mixture.
• 3 combine dry ingredients (except confectioners sugar); beat into chocolate mixture.
• 4 stir in remaining chocolate chips.
• 5 cover and chill for at least 3 hours.
• 6 remove 1 cup of dough. with lightly floured hands, roll into 1" balls. place on ungreased baking sheets.
• 7 bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes, or until lightly puffed and set. cool on baking sheet 3-4 minutes before moving to wire rack to cool completely.
• 8 repeat with remaining dough.
• 9 dust with confectioners sugar.
• 10 (if you want to save time and skip the chilling step, unchilled dough can be dropped directly into mini-muffin tins and baked for about the same length of time.
• 11 **cook and chill time are combined.