Mexican hot chocolate snowball cookies
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Remember that one time, you left out the sugar in your first batch of cookies, perhaps the one time in recent history when you didn't taste the dough first, taking a giant bite out of a hard nugget of chalky cocoa before you realized? And then the next batch you remembered the sugar but screwed something else up and your should-be-ball-shaped cookies turned out like wannabe lace florentines (and not in a good way)? Some days it's obvious the baking gods are not smiling down on me. In fact, on days like these I wonder if they're even looking. Luckily, this no good very bad baking day happened to be a day when I felt extra motivated to be in the kitchen, so I didn't give up in a fit of frustration, but rather kept on trying, determined to get these cookies right. It was worth it. Traditional snowball cookies are spherical shortbread-like cookies, crunchy at first but tender enough to melt in your mouth, sweetened with a generous coating of powdered sugar. I've seen them called a number
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