Snowcaps

Nice, but they're not balls at all! They're nice and crisp, and very chocolatey, but flat like any other cookie. I didn't have cocoa (at least that's what I thought at the time), so to compensate for texture, I added a little extra flour instead “ I'm not sure this has affected the cookie in any important way, but I wouldn't think so.

Speaking of texture, they were pretty difficult to handle as the dough was really soft due to the high amount of melted chocolate and very little flour/cocoa/whatever. We refrigerated the dough for nearly an hour, and yet the dough was still too soft to really handle well. We then put them in the freezer for a while so we could roll them in icing sugar, but even then they quickly became soft again. Because of these texture problems, and because nowhere is mentioned when you have to add the chocolate, I'm wondering whether the melted chocolate was meant to appear in this recipe at all. It nearly seems as if it was a leftover from an early version of the recipe, which was later replaced by cocoa. That at least would make sense.

That said, they were very delicious, even though they were the ugliest cookie in the bundle. Rolling them in icing sugar might have helped with crunchiness, but certainly didn't improve their looks “ next time I would roll them in cocoa, or nothing at all. Regarding their taste, they were nice Christmas cookies, but you could just as well serve them any other time of the year.