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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

  3. makes forty cookies

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