Flourless Italian Chocolate Cookies

Chocolate, hazelnuts provide the foundation of these festive cookies

Servings: 24 cookies

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Prep Time
30 minutes

Cook Time
15 minutes

Dessert dolce

Italian

chocolate Gluten Free Italian Christmas cookies 5 ingredients Flourless

🧂 Ingredients

2 cups powdered sugar (plus a bit more for decoration)
⅓ cup cocoa powder
3.5 ounces 70% chocolate bar roughly chopped (or 1/2 heaping cup of semisweet chocolate chips)
1 cup hazelnuts, chopped
2 egg whites, slightly beaten
optional garnish – one basket of fresh raspberries.

1 Preheat oven to 325° F
2 Sift together powdered sugar and powdered sugar. Stir in hazelnuts and chocolate
chunks (or chips).
3 Add egg whites and and stir to moisten everything thoroughly – will be the
consistency of brownie batter.
4 Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Drop cookies onto cookie sheet by
heaping teaspoons (or use #100 size – extra small- cookie ice cream scoop).
Leave 1 inch between cookies as they will expand while cooking.
5 Bake for 15 minutes for chewy cookies. Bake for 20 minutes for crunchy cookies.
Cool completely. Dust with powdered sugar.

Optional garnish: place one fresh raspberry on each cookie.