Darkside Cookies II: The Prequel

When I started work on the perfect recipe to lure people to the dark side with cookies, I knew it might take a while to get it right. By working off the base of known-to-be-yum recipes, I managed it in two tries.

It's not that the first recipe attempt was bad. In fact, the First Reader preferred it to the second recipe. The problem lay in the cosmetics - it just didn't photograph as pretty as the second. They were a lighter brown, and I was aiming for as dark as it gets without resorting to food dyes. But the flavor packs a punch, and they actually have nuts in them, and...

They taste good, they aren't pretty. But then again, are you gonna look at that cookie, or eat it?

They are flat, and I don't just mean in shape.

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The coffee flavor in this is not predominant, but the flavor is very dark, almost (but not quite) bitter. Like super dark chocolate. The First Reader says they are sweet but not overpowering, excellent chocolate cookies.

We'll be making these again  - he's not prone to rave over chocolate recipes!

I could dress them up... No?

Swish, swoosh, zing... The cookie strikes back.