recipe: chili chocolate cookies

catching up on old cookin... i made these chili chocolate cookies for new years. big fan of the Lindt dark chili chocolate bar and seemed like the cookie form would be just as delish. i used the Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Chip cookie recipe from allrecipes.com as the base (my fav choc cookie recipe), subing in the chili chocolate & some spices.result was good - chocolatey, spicy... but something was missing. they didn't come out as ooey-gooey as they usually do - if you like a cake-like cookie, it would have been just right. something to tweak a lil for next time.

ingredients list: 

- 1 cup butter, room temp

- 1 & 1/2 cups white sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract

- 2 eggs, room temp

- 2 cups flour

- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

- 3/4 tsp baking soda

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 1 & 1/2 cups dark chili chocolate, broken into small pieces

- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper

- 1/2 tsp cinnamon

to make: preheat oven to 350 degrees F. prep cookie sheets with parchment paper or grease.

in medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. stir in the eggs and vanilla. combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, cayenne pepper, and cinnamon and stir dry mixture into creamed mixture. fold in the chili chocolate pieces. drop cookie dough into large teaspoonfuls onto the cookie sheets. 

bake for 8-10 minutes, then allow to cool on wire racks.