Chocolate-Studded Sugar Cookies

This refrigerator cookie, adapted from the Sugar Cookie Dough look by cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson that was published successful the Food conception galore years ago, has go my standard. Walnuts and citrus zest tin beryllium added to marque lemon-walnut cookies; orangish zest and chopped cranberries for cranberry-orange cookies; and here, 8 ounces of chopped bittersweet cocoa to marque chocolate-laced cookies.

When you chop the chocolate, immoderate of it volition extremity up arsenic shavings; that’s fine. Add it each to the dough. What’s important is to chop the cocoa well, due to the fact that large chunks volition marque it hard to portion the cold, steadfast dough.

The logs of dough request to beryllium frozen for astatine slightest 2 hours and up to 1 month. The dough needs to travel to country somesthesia for 5 to 10 minutes earlier slicing. The baked cookies' spirit improves aft a fewer days' storage. They tin beryllium kept successful an airtight instrumentality for respective weeks.

Adapted from a look by cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 72, utilizing ample eggs and low-fat milk)

• Calories

  87

• Fat

  4 g

• Saturated Fat

  3 g

• Carbohydrates

  11 g

• Sodium

  37 mg

• Cholesterol

  9 mg

• Protein

  1 g

• Sugar

  6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look by cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.