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Italian Frosted Chocolate Cookies

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Recipe Summary Italian Frosted Chocolate Cookies

I make these cookies each year at Christmas. They are a favorite of family and friends. This recipe makes approximately 120 cookies.

Ingredients | How To Make Chocolate Frosting For Cake

7 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups white sugar

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (such as Hershey's®)

¼ cup baking powder

1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 ½ teaspoons ground cloves

1 ½ teaspoons ground allspice

1 teaspoon salt

1 large orange, zested

½ cup vegetable shortening (such as Crisco®)

½ cup margarine (such as Parkay®)

5 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract, or to taste

¼ cup orange juice

¼ cup whole milk

½ (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

½ cup chopped walnuts

3 tablespoons whole milk, or more as needed

1 teaspoon orange juice, or as needed

3 cups confectioners' sugar, or more as needed

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Whisk flour, white sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and salt in a large bowl. Stir orange zest into flour mixture. Mix vegetable shortening and margarine into dry ingredients, using your hands, until mixture is crumbly.

Beat eggs and vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until foamy; add egg mixture, 1/4 cup orange juice, and 1/4 cup milk to flour mixture and knead dough in the bowl until thoroughly combined and dough doesn't stick to your hands, about 8 minutes. Dough will be stiff. Knead cream cheese thoroughly into dough, followed by walnuts.

Form dough into balls about 1 1/2 inches in diameter and place onto ungreased baking sheets.

Bake cookies in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 12 to 14 minutes. Cool cookies on racks.

Beat 3 tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon orange juice, and 1 cup confectioners' sugar in a bowl until smooth; gradually beat in remaining confectioners' sugar until frosting is thick and drizzles slowly from a spoon.

Dip tops of cookies into frosting and place frosted cookies on racks with waxed paper underneath to catch drips. Let cookies dry overnight.

Place waxed paper underneath drying racks. This catches the dripping frosting, and clean-up is much easier. I've found that the exact measurements for the frosting aren't that important. So long as the consistency is right, the frosting will be good. Add some milk and orange juice, more milk than orange juice (about 90 to 10 ratio) to get the right consistency. If it gets too thin, add some more powdered sugar. After frosting cookies, let them dry on a drying rack overnight. You can also add food coloring to the frosting and put sprinkles on these cookies.

Info | How To Make Chocolate Frosting For Cake

prep: 1 hr cook: 15 mins additional: 8 hrs total: 9 hrs 15 mins Servings: 120 Yield: 10 dozen cookies

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