Vicki lawrence's chocolate chewies

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       Title: VICKI LAWRENCE'S CHOCOLATE CHEWIES
  Categories: Cookies, Celebrity
       Yield: 4 Dozen
  
     1/2 c  Unsalted butter
       4    (1 oz.) squares unsweetened
            - chocolate
   2 1/2 c  Sugar
     1/2 ts Salt
   1 1/2 ts Vanilla
       3    Eggs
       2 c  Flour
       2 ts Baking powder
  
   Cream butter in bowl.  Melt chocolate in double boiler. Blend into butter
   with 2 cups sugar.  Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla. Sift flour,
   baking powder and salt together; add to chocolate mixture. Chill dough 2
   hours.  Form into balls; roll in rest of sugar. Place 2 inches apart on
   ungreased cookie sheet; bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Don't overbake;
   cookie should be chewy. Makes 50 cookies. Formatted by Mary Wilson,
   BWVB02B.
  
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