Chocolate crackle cookies

Epicurious has got this perfect chocolate cookie recipe - which uses only cocoa powder, but is so very chocolatey to boot!

The problem is I dusted them with icing sugar and left them in the container - and this is what it looks like. Lesson: if the cookies are to keep, they should remain undusted, otherwise they'll just look dirty.

Chocolate-date cupcakes

These are not chocolatey enough, but they were very good. Ate them over the week and the texture stayed wonderfully chewy. Definitely a make again. Very satisfying, but not in the chocolatey way.

Tested them with black pepper, as shown in picture, which had a truly grown-up, gourmet effect.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/108418