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Baking cookies anytime of the year is one of my favorite activities. Christmas is my excuse to bake and taste. I think I like tasting the cookies more than anything else and sometimes I eat so many I have to make another batch :).

I found this recipe many years ago in my mom's old recipes and it caught my attention when  I saw cinnamon as an ingredient.  It's always a fan favorite whenever I make this delicious, crispy, chocolatey cookie with the unexpected hint of cinnamon which goes so well with the chocolate and makes this cookie awesome.

Awesome Crispy Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 2 tsps. baking soda
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 sticks of butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup light corn syrup
• 2 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate, melted
• 1/2 cup sugar in the raw for coating

Directions

1. Pre-heat oven 375 degrees.
2. In small bowl combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and set aside.
3. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture at a time to the wet ingredients and using a wooden spoon mix well after each addition.
4. Use a small cookie scoop to form a ball and then roll each ball into into the raw sugar.  Then   place 1" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet and flatten a little. The cookies will spread.
5. Bake for 11-13 minutes - do not over bake as they continue to cook a little more after they are removed from the oven and when they cool they become very crispy.

You can drizzle a glaze or melted white chocolate over each cookie for a more festive look.


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Mangia!
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