Chocolate Truffle Cookies

  Servings       : 1
  Categories     : Cookies

          4   ounces Chocolate, Unsweetened, (1 Block of Choc)
          1   pint Chocolate Chips, divided
        2/3   stick margarine
          1   cup sugar
          3   whole Eggs
      1 1/2   teaspoons Vanilla Extract
          2   tablespoons cocoa
        1/4   teaspoon Salt
        1/4   teaspoon baking Powder
          1   dash powdered Sugar
        1/2   cup flour

  In a microwave or double boiler, melt unsweetened chocolate, 1 cup of chocolate
  chips and margarine per batch.  Cool for 10 minutes.  
  In a mixing bowl, beat sugar and eggs for 2 minutes.  
  Beat in vanilla and the chocolate mixture.  
  Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; beat into chocolate mixture. 
  Stir in remaining chocolate chips.  

  Cover and chill for at least 3 hours.  

  Remove about 1 cup of dough.  with slightly floured hands, roll into 1 inch
  balls.  Place on ungreased cookie sheets.  Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or
  until lightly puffed and set.  Cool on pan 3-4 minutes before remvoing to a
  wire rack to cool completely.  Repeat with remaining dough.  Dust with powered
  sugar.  

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  Serving Ideas  : Yield: 51 Per Batch (2009 count)