Italian Chocolate Clove Cookies

By zircon50

Makes 48 cookies

Ingredients

• FROSTING:
• 1 C unsalted butter, melted
• 1 C natural cane sugar
• 6 T unsweetened cocoa
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp clove
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 4 C unbleached all purpose flour
• 1 C milk
• 1 C icing sugar
• 2 T milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC.

Sift dry ingredients together (except sugar).

Add sugar and melted butter to a mixing bowl and beat until blended. Add flour mixture and milk alternatively until dough starts to get very thick (you will likely have one addition of the flour mixture and one addition of the milk remaining).

Remove the bowl from the mixer and use your hands to blend in the last of what remains.

Roll small pinches of dough into tight balls (about 1 inch in diameter) and bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 10 minutes (do not over-bake these cookies!).

Let the cookies cool completely and then dip them in the frosting letting it pour down the sides as it sets.

Store in an airtight container.