Chocolate Cookies

Messy but good.

CHOCOLATE COOKIES

4 oz. semisweet chocolate

1/4 c. butter

4 eggs

1 1/2 c. granulated sugar

1 3/4 c. flour

1/2 c. cocoa powder

2 t. baking powder

pinch salt

1/4-1/2 c. powdered sugar

Get yourself a double boiler situation going. Put in your semisweet chocolate and butter. Combine and melt together. Mix eggs and granulated sugar together until light in color and thickened. Add your sort of cooled chocolate butter mix. Combine with a wooden spoon.

Add your dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Put some sort of wrap or cover on the bowl and refrigerate the mess until more like a cookie dough. This usually is about 2 hours. It is going to be more like a brownie batter at the start.

Turn oven to 350. Once it is to the point where you can work little cookie balls, pull from fridge and work into said little cookie balls. Enrobe in powdered sugar. Now you are in it. Work quickly so that each ball does not absorb powdered sugar. You want the cookies to flatten and maintain an inkling of their enrobement. Place each cookie ball on a prepared baking sheet. Bake until they flatten out a bit and begin to take on a sort of crackled top. About 12 minutes depending your oven. They will still be a bit soft to the touch right when you take them from the oven. This is great because they still have some flattening and firming to do. They will sort it out on their own once out of oven and on a cooling rack.