Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 12 cup cocoa (Dutch-processed makes richer cookies)
  • 23 cup canola oil
  • 1 egg
  • 2 14 cups flour
  • 1 12 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 12 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 34 cup plain yogurt
  • 14 cup espresso
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 34 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 tablespoon melted butter
  • 1 cup sifted powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa
  • 3 tablespoons espresso (hot)
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 14 teaspoon vanilla
  • 14 cup finely chopped walnuts

Method

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees Farenheit.
  • For the cookies, combine sugar and cocoa in a medium bowl, then stir in oil and mix until well-blended.
  • Beat in egg.
  • Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in one bowl and the yogurt, espresso and vanilla in another.
  • Alternate adding these mixtures, a little at a time, into the chocolate mixture.
  • When fully mixed, fold in the walnuts.
  • Drop onto a cookie sheet in mounds about the size of walnuts.
  • Bake for 8-10 minutes@ 375 degrees, or until the top of the cookies start to crack.
  • Remove and cool on wire racks.
  • Make the glaze, mixing the butter, powdered sugar& cocoa, then beating in the espresso, salt& vanilla.
  • Drizzle over the cooled cookies (for a no-mess solution, pour it into a plastic sandwich bag and poke a hole in one corner!)
  • Then, before glaze sets, sprinkle with finely chopped walnuts.