Chocolate Nut Drops
(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)
Source: Southern Living- Claire Milst, Raleigh, North Carolina
Categories: Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
- 1 3/4 cups sifted flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 3/4 cups walnuts, chopped
- 1/3 cup milk
- white icing
Directions
- Melt chocolate. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Cream butter. Slowly add and beat in sugar; beat until well blended. Add egg; beat well.
- Add melted chocolate, vanilla and nuts; mix well. Add and stir in sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk. Stir just until blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet; cool. Top with icing and nut meats, if desired.
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makes forty cookies