Chocolate Hazelnut Spiced Cookies
Chocolate Hazelnut Spiced Cookies might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 30. One portion of this dish contains approximately 2g of protein, 7g of fat, and a total of 104 calories. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 5 hours. If you have orange zest, sugar, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325°F with rack in middle. Butter a large baking sheet.
Pulse hazelnuts, sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cloves in a food processor until nuts are finely chopped, then add butter and zest and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal with some small (roughly pea-size) butter lumps.
Add juice and liqueur and pulse until dough comes together into a ball but is still crumbly. Form level tablespoons of dough into balls and flatten to about 1 1/2 inches in diameter, arranging 1 inch apart on baking sheet.
Bake cookies until puffed and slightly cracked, about 15 minutes.
Transfer to a rack to cool completely.
Whisk together all icing ingredients until smooth.
Dip tops of cooled cookies into icing and transfer to a wax-paper-lined baking sheet.
Let stand until icing is set, about 1 hour.
Cookies keep, layered between sheets of parchment paper, in an airtight container at room temperature 4 days.