Chocolate Clove Drops
Chocolate Clove Drops, another perfect cookie recipe from Italy.
This cookies are Chritmas favorite of many families.
It has an uncommon flavor combination of cocoa and cloves.
We always leave a few of these cookies and fresh cup of cappuccino for Santa.
Ingredients:
2 1/2 Cups Flour
3 Teaspoons baking powder
1/2 Teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup cocoa
1 Teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 Eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
Melted than cooled
Direction:
- Preheat oven to 350F
- In a large stainless-steel bowl, with a wooden spoon, mix together 2 cups of flour, the baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, cloves, nutmeg, and sinnammon.
-Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Set a side.
-In a electric Mixer or with a wire wisk, beat eggs and suger. Add milk and melted shortening. Mix well.
- Pour egg mixture into the well and begin to mix with a wooden spoon.
- With a wooden spoon, mix in the remaining 1/2 cup flour. This will give you a
slightly sticky dough. drop from a teaspoon onto parchment- lined cookie sheet, spacing cookies 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or untill lightly browned. Remove cookie sheet from the oven.
-Using a metal spatula, remove cookies from the sheet onto wire cooling racks, Cool, than frost with Chocolate Clove Frosting (see following recipe).
Let frosting dry for a few hours before serving.
Store frosted cookies in an airtight container. Freeze unfrosted cookies in plastic freezer bags.
Chocolate Clove Frosting
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon ground Cloves
1/2 Teaspoon Nutmeg
3 Cups confectioners Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 cup Cocoa
- With an Electric mixer. mix all ingredients untill smooth.
- Using a metal spatula or butter knife, frost the tops of the cookies.
If the frosting is too stiff, add a few drops of water to it and dip your butter knife or spatula
in water before spreading.
The chocolate clove drops recipe and chocolate frosting recipe are taken from the,
"Sweet maria's Italian Cooking" by Maria Bruscino Sanchez.
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