Vicki Lawrence's Chocolate Chewies

Ingredients

65 gr butter
500 gr sugar
1 gr salt
7 gr vanilla
3 eggs
250 gr flour
9 gr baking powder

Instructions

Cream butter in bowl. Melt chocolate in double boiler. Blend into butter with 2 cups sugar. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together; add to chocolate mixture. Chill dough 2 hours. Form into balls; roll in rest of sugar. Place 5 cm apart on ungreased cookie sheet; bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Don't overbake; cookie should be chewy. Makes 50 cookies. Formatted by Mary Wilson, BWVB02B. ----