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Cayenne gives cookie a kick

By Kelly Brant

Posted: October 24, 2012 at 3:39 a.m.

Stephen B. Thornton Mexican Hot Chocolate Shortbread

This is a chocolate cookie for serious chocolate lovers. Rich, dark and spiced. Don’t let the cayenne pepper in this recipe scare you off — the pepper is just enough to give the cookies a warm kick, but not so much that your mouth will burn.

Mexican Hot Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Mexican Hot Chocolate Shortbread Cookies get a kick of flavor from ground cayenne pepper. (By Stephen B. Thornton)
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Food, Pages 35 on 10/24/2012

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