Recipe
RECIPE
* If you’re not a fan of spice, just skip the chipotle/cayenne in both the dough and the sugar mixture.
Cookie dough:
1 cup (2 sticks) room temperature butter
1 ⒈／⒉ cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 ⒈／⒋ cups all-purpose flour or 1:1 gluten-free flour
⒈／⒉ cup cocoa powder
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. baking soda
⒈／⒋ tsp. salt
⒈／⒋ tsp. ground chipotle powder OR red cayenne pepper
Sugar mixture:
⒈／⒋ c. sugar
⒈／⒋ tsp. ground chipotle powder OR red cayenne pepper
1 tsp. cinnamon
Preheat oven to 400℉
To make the dough: cream together butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat. Sift together all dry ingredients, then mix while gradually adding to the dough.
To make sugar mixture: combine all three ingredients.
Using a cookie scoop or spoon, form balls of dough and roll in the sugar mixture. Bake 3 inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 10 minutes. Let cookies cool on sheet for 3 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.