Mocha Lace Roll-ups

Total Time: 29 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 9 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sifted all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup blanched almond, finely crushed
• 1/4 cup light corn syrup
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
• 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate square
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• pistachio nut, chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325°f.
• 2 combine flour and almonds.
• 3 mix corn syrup, sugar, butter and chocolate together in a saucepan; cook, stirring constantly until mixture comes to the boil and the chocolate is melted.
• 4 remove from heat and add vanilla extract; stir in flour mixture gradually until well blended.
• 5 drop mixture by rounded teaspoonfuls about 3" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet (bake no more than 6 at a time).
• 6 bake for 9 minutes; remove to cooling rack and cool briefly.
• 7 scoop up warm cookies with a large metal spatula; quickly roll around a wooden spoon handle (at least 1/2" in diameter) and hold for a few seconds until cookie stiffens. if cookies cool too quickly or are too brittle to work,return to warm oven briefly to soften.
• 8 slide cookie off handle onto rack to cool completely.
• 9 beat cream with sugar until stiff; pipe into cookies and dip ends into chopped pistachios.