{"id":14821,"date":"2011-12-12T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=14821"},"modified":"2011-12-12T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T17:05:04","slug":"italian-chocolate-meatball-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/12\/italian-chocolate-meatball-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Chocolate Meatball Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14822\" title=\"Italian Meatball Cookies \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> For the Holiday Cookie Exchange, I was paired up with Jess! She sent along her recipe for Italian Chocolate Meatball Cookies.<\/p>\n<p>I made a few changes to accomodate what I had on hand along with adjusting to suit our tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the original recipe from <a href=\"http:\/\/jessgambacurta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jess:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong>Italian Chocolate Meatball Cookies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>from Dianna Petrella&#8217;s recipe (a family friend)<\/div>\n<div><em>Ingredients<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup shortening (yes, you have to use shortening or something like Earth Balance &#8211; unfortunately butter just doesn&#8217;t work right)<\/li>\n<li>1.5 cup granulated sugar<\/li>\n<li>3 eggs<\/li>\n<li>1 cup warm milk<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>5 cups all-purpose flour<\/li>\n<li>5 tsp baking powder<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup cocoa powder (Hershey&#8217;s, Ghirardelli, or Scharffen Berger are good)<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp nutmeg<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp cloves<\/li>\n<li>1 cup walnuts (finely chopped)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup raisins<\/li>\n<li>1 cup chocolate chips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Instructions<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Mix all ingredients in a large bowl (ideally you would do this in a stand mixer if you have one; I wouldn&#8217;t recommend a hand mixer unless you&#8217;ve got an industrial strength one). Roll into balls. Bake at 350\u00ba for 10-15 minutes. Cool and dip tops into confectionary sugar frosting and sprinkle tops with confetti. Freeze for up to three months. Yields 4-5 dozen.<\/div>\n<div>For frosting, mix 3 cups confectionary sugar, 2 Tbsp milk, and 1 tsp vanilla extract.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies2.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14823\" title=\"Italian Meatball Cookies\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies2-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meatball_cookies2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My adapations are as follows:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t have shortening, so I used 1\/2C coconut oil as a sub.<\/li>\n<li>I also don&#8217;t have milk, so I subbed in 1C of warm unsweetened coconut milk.<\/li>\n<li>I used 2C Unbleached All Purpose Flour and 3C White Whole Wheat Flour<\/li>\n<li>Used 1\/2C Cane Sugar<\/li>\n<li>And I didn&#8217;t have any raisins so I had to leave that ingredient out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>I did end up adding just a splash more liquid, since I used whole wheat flour that requires a touch more liquid to the recipe. \u00a0No more than 1\/4C though I could have gone up to a 1\/2C and been fine.<\/div>\n<div>The dough for this recipe is a tight stiff dough and I thought these cookies were going to turn out very dense. \u00a0However they are light little cookies with a great chocolatey taste! We are not much fans of icing which is why I didn&#8217;t ice these cookies but if you do like icing then I highly suggest adding that as well! \u00a0Or sprinkling with a little powdered sugar on top.<\/div>\n<div>Great little cookies to have on your holiday table! \u00a0Thanks for participating <a href=\"http:\/\/jessgambacurta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jess!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Holiday Cookie Exchange, I was paired up with Jess! She sent along her recipe for Italian Chocolate Meatball Cookies. I made a few changes to accomodate what I had on hand along with adjusting to suit our tastes. Below is the original recipe from Jess: &nbsp; Italian Chocolate Meatball Cookies from Dianna Petrella&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[63,49],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3R3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}