Brownie Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 48
• 4 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 lb unsalted butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 3/4 cup walnuts, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 melt the chocolate over hot water.
• 2 sift the flour, baking soda, and baking powder together.
• 3 set aside.
• 4 in the bowl of a mixer, cream the butter.
• 5 add the sugar slowly and continue to beat.
• 6 add the vanilla, then the eggs 1 at a time.
• 7 add the chocolate and stir to blend.
• 8 stir in the dry ingredients and the milk by hand.
• 9 when just blended, mix in the walnuts.
• 10 cover and refrigerate dough for 30 minutes before rolling.
• 11 preheat oven to 375 degres.
• 12 lightly grease a cookie sheet.
• 13 to form the cookies, scoop out a portion of dough and roll out on a well-floured surface.
• 14 when dough is 1/4 inch thick, cut it into rounds or other desired shapes.
• 15 re-roll scraps and cut again.
• 16 place on cookie sheet (leave room for expansion) and bake for 6 to 8 minutes.
• 17 watch for any hot spots in the oven and don't let these cookies overbrown.
• 18 variation: for the brownie cookie crust, make 1 recipe of brownie cookies and chill the dough briefly.
• 19 lightly grease the back side of a large baking sheet.
• 20 roll the dough out onto the baking sheet as thinly as possible so that the baked product will crumble easily.
• 21 bake crust at 375 degrees for 5 to 7 minutes.
• 22 let crust harden, then slide the cookie from the sheet and cool completely.
• 23 roll over the cookie with a rolling pin until it is crushed to a fine crumb. (there should be about 2 1/4 cups of crumbs.) melt 1 stick plus 1 tablespoon of unsalted butter.
• 24 mix it into the crumbs and pack the mixture over the bottom and up the sides of a 10-inch springform pan.
• 25 freeze for 30 minutes before filling in order to set the crust.
• 26 line each cup with waxed paper for easy removal.