More Chocolate Cookies!

Having successfully made Martha Stewart's chekerboard cookies, I was inspired to experiment with more of her cookie recipes from her site. So I was basically making cookies for the whole month of December - another batch as soon as the previous had been completely devoured.


I came upon this recipe for Mocha Slice cookies. The technique was simple. It was a dough cookie, so it was similar the the checkerboard cookies I made. However, I did not have cocoa nibs, so I used some toasted walnuts instead.

I skipped rolling the cookies in sugar.

Then I simply could not resist making a cookie with the classic combination of dark chocolate and mint. The original recipe was reminiscent of after-dinner mints. But I could not resist being generous with the filling.

I added pepermint oil to both the dough and filling, by the way
to offset the bitterness of the dark chocolate (instead of sweetening the filling.)