Cookie Week: Rolo Cookies

Yay for cookie week!  As always, the recipes that we are posting this week are recipes that we have used many times and plan to make many times in the future.   This recipe is no exception.  One of my favorite cookies happens to be a deliciously rich chocolate cookie with a rolo in the middle.  The candy melts to make these cookies gooey and perfect.

Rolo Cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 1/2 cups flour
48 rolos (one package)
2 tablespoons sugar

Directions:
Beat sugars and butter until well blended. Add eggs and vanilla and mix.  Add flour, cocoa, and soda and blend well.  Shape cookies into small balls. Press rolo into center of ball and cover with dough (form a dough ball around a rolo). Roll cookie in sugar. Bake on un-greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes, until tops of cookies are slightly cracked. Cool on racks.

Notes:
--As you can see this recipe makes about 48 cookies. So if you don't want tons of cookies you could do half of the recipe. But, the girl who gave me this recipe said that the dough balls freeze well and then you can make them whenever you want fresh cookies. I haven't tried that yet, but I bet it would be lovely.

-Paula