Perhaps if you used a little corn syrup in place of some of the sugar, the cookies would be darker. In food scientist Shirley O. Corriher's cookbook "Cookwise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking," she has a section on baking cookies and how to change the look and texture by making small changes to the basic recipe. For darkening the cookies, she recommends making the above change. I plan on making these cookies later today. They look delicious and I know they will make the house smell fantastic!

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