Mocha Brownie Cookies

These are primo! Adapted from Maida Heatter. I think I reduced the amount of sugar from the original recipe. I will give the more "standard" ingredients with a healthier variation that I personally use. The estimate of preparation time includes chilling time.

• Ready In: 1 hr 39 mins
• Yields: 36 cookies

Ingredients

• 2⁄3 cup butter
• 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 2  large eggs
• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1⁄3 cup  unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1  dash salt
• 2  teaspoons instant coffee powder
• 1 -2  cup  broken  nuts

Directions

1. Adjust 2 oven racks so that one is 1/3 down from the top and other is 1/3 up from the bottom.
2. Preheat oven to 375°F
3. Melt butter in microwave on high – about 1.5 minutes.
4. Add sugar, vanilla and eggs one at a time.
5. Add dry ingredients; add nuts.
6. Refrigerate the dough for about an hour or more, until it is really cold, or cheat and use the freezer for a shorter amount of time. Do not skip this step! This is necessary or the cookies will spread while baking.
7. Drop the chilled dough by rounded tablespoons 2 inches apart on 2 ungreased cookie sheets.
8. Bake 7 to 9 minutes, switching pans once. Do not overbake.
9. Here are my substitutions: instead of white sugar, I use fructose;
10. Instead of white flour, I use 1 1/4 cups organic oat flour or whole wheat pastry flour plus 1/4 cup soy flour.