Mole Cookies

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These mightiness not beryllium for everyone, arsenic they person the sensation of the accepted Mexican sauce: sesame and pumpkin seeds, cinnamon and cloves, with 2 kinds of chocolate. They are aromatic astatine archetypal bite, past the vigor starts to build.

The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 4 days and tin beryllium frozen for up to 3 months.

Adapted from "The Ultimate Chocolate Cookie Cookbook," by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough (William Morrow, 2004).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 38-42 cookies

1 3/4 cups flour
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted (not Dutch-process)
1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon crushed cloves
1/4 spoon salt
1/2 cupful roasted unsalted pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
1/4 cupful sesame seeds, lightly toasted (see NOTE)
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
3/4 cupful (6 ounces) rootlike shortening
2 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter, chopped into tiny pieces
1/2 cupful granulated sugar
1/4 cupful packed airy brownish sugar
2 ample ovum yolks, astatine country temperature
1 spoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons axenic chili powder
2/3 cupful dried currants
1 1/2 cups finely chopped pecan pieces

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 42)

Calories
135
Fat
10 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
11 g
Sodium
15 mg
Cholesterol
11 mg
Protein
2 g
Fiber
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The Ultimate Chocolate Cookie Cookbook," by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough (William Morrow, 2004).

Tested by Randy Richter.

Published March 12, 2026