A Week of Valentine's Recipes: My Favorite Cookie: Chocolate Pepper

A lady at work made these one year in heart shapes. They were the best cookies I've ever had.

Chocolate Pepper Cookies 3-4 dozen

3 sticks butter
1 1/4 C sugar
2 beaten eggs
3 C flour
1 1/2 C (excellent quality) unsweetened cocoa
1/4 t ground black pepper
1 t cinnamon
4-6 oz. white chocolate (or your choice of chocolate), for decoration

Preheat oven to 350F.
Cream butter. Add eggs and then dry ingredients.
Flatten, wrap (in wax paper) and refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
Roll out dough and use heart cookie cutter.
Bake for 8-10 minutes.
This is optional but I think makes a better cookie: Melt white chocolate and drizzle over top of cookies or dip half of each heart cookie into melted chocolate and cool.