Chocolate Cookies ( Romany Creams)

If equated, these are to South African children what Oreo Cookies are to American children, though they are not the same in taste. I never stick mine together to make 'sandwiches' but prefer to dip each cookie into melted chocolate and sprinkle on chocolate vermicilli.

• Ready In: 43 mins
• Serves: 48

Ingredients

• 125  g butter
• 200  ml sugar
• 2  eggs
• 2  ml vanilla extract
• 375  ml flour
• 10  ml baking powder
• 1  pinch salt
• 30  ml cocoa powder
• 250  ml coconut

• TOPPING

• 125  ml chocolate chips
•  chocolate sprinkles, for decoration (vermicelli)

Directions

1. Preheat oven 350°F.
2. Cream butter and sugar.
3. Beat eggs and vanilla and beat into butter mixture.
4. Sift in dry ingredients, add coconut and mix well.
5. Scoop 1 tsp mounds onto prepared cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 13 minutes.
7. Cool on wire rack.
8. TOPPING:
9. Melt chocolate in double boiler and dip in 1/2 of each cookie.
10. Lay cookies on sheet of wax paper and sprinkle on vermicilli.
11. Place in refrigerator just long enough for chocolate to harden.