Dressing up Mocha Truffle Cookies??

[laughsandlaughs]

Hi all,

I'm the host of a cookie exchange tomorrow, for 16 families, with 30 kids tagging along (they have crafts, a playground, etc for them) and am making the Mocha Truffle Cookies. I used Penzeys cocoa and 60% Cacao chocolate chips so they are good and RICH! But they look a little bit like brown hockeypucks right now, I'd like to dress them up a bit. Any suggestions? I can't do powdered sugar, another woman is making Chocolate snowballs and I don't want them to look similar. I considered drizzling melted chocolate (not entirely sure how to do this, just chocolate? will it firm up?) but was worried it'd be too rich. Thoughts?

TY!
elizabeth

[ljt2r]

I understand your concern, but honestly I would leave them alone. No one ever says brownies look like (fill in the blank) but they do. People will see rich chocolate, not hockey pucks.

[MaryH]

If the cookies come out as round circular cookies, I've taken to putting the Ghiradellhi peppermint squares, (each cut into four smaller pieces) in the middle of the cookie. Problem is, you usually have to do it when the cookies are warn from the oven, so that the chocolate base melts into the cookie and the candy part sticks.

[Jazzmatazz49]

I actually enjoy watching people's faces as they bite into the Mocha Truffles. The cookies look like plain old chocolate cookies, and are always a pleasant surprise. Sometimes the cookies will sit untouched for a while if there are choices, but after the first person eats one...they disappear in minutes!