Stick To Your Teeth Chocolate Cookies

Yield: 24 cookies

Ingredients

• 2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup Graham cracker crumbs, finely ground
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 24 shelled walnut halves
• Walnut halves, to garnish

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet.
2. Using a double boiler, melt the chocolate in a medium size bowl.
3. Add the milk and stir until the mixture thickens, approximately 5 minutes.
4. Remove the bowl from heat and add the crumbs, salt, nuts and vanilla extract and stir until well combined. Work quickly as the mixture will become stiff.
5. Using a spoon, drop the mixture into rounded teaspoons onto the prepared cookie sheet.
6. Place a walnut half on top of each cookie.
7. Place cookies in oven and bake for 10 minutes.
8. Remove cookies from oven and quickly transfer onto wax paper to cool.

Attribution

Recipe used with permission from Paula Deen.