Day 259: Mudslide Cookies

Yield: 30 cookies

Time (Start to Finish): 45 min

Ingredients:
1 ½ Tbsp butter
2 oz bittersweet chocolate chips
2 oz unsweetened chocolate, chopped up

1 Tbsp instant coffee
2 Tbsp baileys Irish cream
1 tsp vanilla

1 ½ cup flour
½ cup unsweetened cocoa
2 tsp baking powder
pinch salt

2 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs plus 1 egg white
¼ cup baileys irish cream

¼ cup chopped walnuts

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. In a bowl, put the butter, bittersweet chocolate and unsweetened chocolate and microwave for a minute. Stir until smooth. You may need to reheat
3. Stir together the instant coffee, baileys and vanilla and add to the chocolate
4. In a mixture, combine the eggs, sugar and baileys and mix for about 5 min until pale in color and fluffy
5. Add to the chocolate mixture in 2 additions and mix until combined
6. Mix they dry ingredients together, the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt
7. Add to the chocolate, and add the nuts and stir till combined
8. Spoon rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheets about 1 inch apart and bake for about 10 min or until the top of the cookies begin to crack
9. Cook and serve. Be careful taking off the cookie sheet, they tend to stick

Rating: 4 strawberries
Notes: Ok, so I know they have a bunch of baileys in them, but I really don’t taste it. A mudslide drink is kahlua, baileys, cream, and chocolate. Mine has coffee, baileys, and nuts…so maybe they aren’t so perfect, but they are pretty good! If you get them out just when they begin to crack on top, they will be chewy inside and crunchy outside, which is the way I like them best. Try them out, maybe serve them with the Guinness brownies and have a drinking dessert theme party!