Description
The Chocolate Italian Meatball Cookie is quintessential Christmas!
Ingredients
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- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/4 cups butter flavored shortening
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup 1% milk
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 5 cups All-Purpose flour
- 5 tsp. baking powder
- 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp ground nutmeg
- 1 Tbsp Allspice
- 3/4 cup Hershey cocoa
- 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Holiday colored sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a large mixing bowl cream sugar and shortening.
- Add eggs one at a time, slowly mixing after each addition.
- Add milk and vanilla and mix again.
- Add dry ingredients. Mix well.
- Add nuts and chocolate chips and mix.
- Roll the dough into meatball sized balls (or use a small ice cream scoop).
- Place on parchment lined cookie sheets. 12 per sheet.
- Bake for 13 – 15 minutes.
- Cool on racks.
- In the meantime prepare glaze.
- In a small bowl combine powdered sugar, milk and vanilla.
- When cookies are cool, dunk in glaze and place them back on racks.
- Sprinkle with colored sprinkles and let dry.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Cooking with Nonna
