Mexican chocolate cookies
Adapted from a recipe in the Boston Globe

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
4 tsp. vanilla extract

2 cups flour
4 tsp. chili powder
2 tsp. baking powder
4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper

Stir sugar and cocoa powder together.  Add oil, vanilla, and eggs; mix
together.

Stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, chili powder, and black
pepper; mix into chocolate mixture.  Put in refrigerator for a few
hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 350.  Roll cookies into balls, "about walnut sized",
roll balls in cinnamon sugar.  Bake for about 15 minutes.












Note: if no chili powder on hand, make it thusly:

1 tbs cayenne pepper
5 tbs cumin powder
1 tbs oregano
2 tbs basil
1 tbs salt
1 tbs garlic powder

(Obviously this will make more than 4 teaspoons!  Make some chili afterwards!)