lacy crisp cookies

from the Australian Women's Weekly cupcakes and cookies book....crispy and chocolaty...

100g dark cooking chocolate, chopped coarsely

80g butter, chopped

1 cup castor sugar

1 egg, lightly beaten

1 cup flour ] sifted

2 tbsp cocoa powder ] sifted

1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda ] sifted

1/4 cup icing sugar

• melt chocoalte and butter in a small saucepan over low heat. transfer to medium bowl


• stir in caster sugar, egg, flour cocoa powder and soda. cover, refrigerate about 15 minutes or until mixture is firm enough to handle


• preheat oven to 180 degrees fan-forced. grease oven trays, line with baking papaer


• roll level tablespoons of mixture into balls; roll each ball in icing sugar, place on trays 5 cm apart. bake about 15 minutes, cool crisps on trays