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Ingredientes
- Chocolate Pretzel Cookies - Adapted From Bon Appetit, June 2004
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 1 large egg white
- 1/2 cup raw sugar (also called turbinado sugar and available at natural food stores and most supermarkets and cooking stores)
- 20 oz. white chocolate (high quality makes a difference! I used Lindt), chopped
- One year ago: Lemon Pound Cake
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