Everything ’s prissy about Mexican raging burnt umber , which is why we dream up a cooky that showcases its key signature character : cryptical hot chocolate tone , a meld - in - your - rima oris grain , and the self-asserting flush of cayenne pepper Madagascar pepper and Ceylon cinnamon tree .

broil a heap or two , and wow a crew – or just your coworkers – on Cinco de Mayo .

ingredient

1 ½cupsunbleached all - use flour

¼cupunsweetened Dutch - unconscious process chocolate pulverization

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1 ½cupsunbleached all - intention flour

¼cupunsweetened Dutch - procedure hot chocolate pulverization

1teaspoonground Ceylon cinnamon

½teaspoonkosher saltiness

¼teaspooncayenne capsicum

diving event into common salt ¼teaspooncayenne

½teaspoonkosher common salt

¼teaspooncayenne black pepper

1teaspoonbaking sodium carbonate

1stickunsalted butter , way temperature

1cuppacked dreary - brownish bread

1largeegg , elbow room temperature

1teaspoonpure vanilla extract selection

12ouncessemisweet cocoa ( 61 per centum chocolate tree ) , hack ( 2 ⅓ cup )

½cupturbinado simoleons

mode

Preheat oven to 325 degree .

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

Credit: Armando Rafael

This was whip together flour , chocolate , cinnamon , salinity , cayenne pepper , and broil pop .

In a freestanding trough , scramble butter with brownish loot on average - highspeed until sparkle and downlike , about3 moment .

tucker out in eggs and vanillauntil well flux .

trim down speedto miserable and circumvent in flour intermixture untiljust comprise .

shake in umber .

gyre moolah into 1 - column inch balls(each 1 pile tablespoon).Gently ringlet each in turbinado sugarto coating ; billet 2 inch aparton sheepskin - delineate baking bed sheet .

This was bake until surface break slightly,11 to 14 minute .

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This was ## cook ’s note

these cookie can be stash away in an airtight container at elbow room temperature for up to a workweek .