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Chocolate Melting Kisses

8 squares BAKER'S Bittersweet chocolate
2 tbsp (30 ml) Butter
1-1/4 cups (300 ml) ground almonds
2 eggs
3/4 cup (175 ml) granulated sugar
1/2 cup (125 ml) icing sugar

1. Heat chocolate, stirring often, over barely simmering water in double boiler (or microwave on Medium until semi-melted). Stir in butter until smooth. Stir in almonds and let cool to room temperature.

2. Using electric mixer, beat eggs with sugar util thick and fluffy. Fold in chocolate mixture. Chill until firm enough to roll, about 1 hour.

3. With icing sugar-coated hands, shape dough into 1-inch (2 cm) balls; roll in icing sugar until thickly coated. Palce at least 2 inches (5 cm) apart on parchment-lined orwell-buttered baking sheet. Chill for 10 minutes.

4. Bake in 350 F (180 C) oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until cracked and slightly raised. Remove pan to cooling rack; let cookies cool completely on pan. Store in airtight container. Makes about 4 dozen.

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Happy Birthday Sue!!

I'm back home. My Yosemite pictures are here. I have a couple of pictures from Lee's birthday here, friends-locked.

Holy crap, that was a way to start a game.

Chocolate Melting Kisses

Oh my god, I am making these! Thank you!

I am working tonight - not my usual night, I traded - and it is so slow. I have had one chat since 6pm. Thank god for Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Thanks Tom.

Monday TV is exhausting!

Holy crap, that was a way to start a game.

:( says the Niners fan (Saints are second fave team).

Oh my god, I am making these! Thank you!

They are soooo delicious. Ouise had them at a party and it was very hard for me to not eat them all.

mmm. Thank you, Sue.

ita, I have told people I (semi-)know (not strangers) that they had lipstick on their teeth or their label was sticking out. Discreetly, of course. Most often, they seem to appreciate the info. If they think I'm weird, well, what the hell, they probably thought that anyway.