Chocolate decorator Cookies-use Royal Icing, frosting or even melted chocolate to decorate these easy to make cookies.
And then I saw these cute little Snowflake Cookies that Baking in Heels made. They were beautiful, no doubt about it.
But what caught my eye was they were chocolate! And she found the recipe over at Lila Loa. See how good bloggers are, we share recipes! Lila has perfected the chocolate cookie with The End All for Chocolate Cookies Recipe.
The End All? Well now I just HAVE to try it.
Chocolate Cookies
from Lila Loa
Chocolate Decorator Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 2/3 cup cocoa (I used Hershey's)
- 3 or 3 1/2 cups flour ****
Instructions
- Of course, make sure all ingredients are at room temperature.
- Cream Butter, shortening and sugar together. Next add eggs and vanilla. Mix. Then your salt and baking powder. Mix again. And your cocoa. Mix.
- Now for the flour, (BTW, I sifted mine.) Start with 2 cups of flour, mix till combined then add remaining flour and finish mixing.
- Now just roll out on a lightly floured surface. I rolled to about 1/4 inch thickness, maybe a little thinner. Use cutters and cut into desired shapes.
- Place on ungreased or parchment lined or silicone mat baking tray. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 6 1/2 minutes. Watch them, my oven runs high so I took them out at 6 minutes.
- Remove to racks and let cool completely before decorating.
Notes
****Lila has a note about how much flour to use depending on if you are refrigerating your dough. I was nervous so I compromised and used 3 1/4 cup flour.
recipe source ChocolateChocolateandmore.com
.This recipe is fast, a short baking time, I was able to whip it up and cook the entire batch in about an hour.
Now you can eat these plain.
drizzle some chocolate over them.
I recently made these decorator cookies into bats for Halloween. The bats were kind of plain so I sandwiched some Cherry Jam Buttercream in the middle and glued two eyes on with dark chocolate.
And I have to say, these cookies are delicious anyway you decide to serve them. I do want to try them with the Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa next though. I bet it’ll taste just like an Oreo.
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I am in chocolate heart love with these little beauties!! I can’t wait to make them!! <3
Oh these are adorable! Thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday, I hope to see you again next week 🙂
These look delicious!
These look great,I love chocolate:) ,Thank you for sharing them with us at Creative Mondays 🙂
First of all I had to wait few mins before I could type. Looks like you have found my weakness. And perfect for valentine.
These look tasty and nice and uniform. Thanks for sharing. Pat
I love that recipe! And I never thought to do white chocolate drizzle. Great tip!
I am going to have to try that recipe. They look great!
These look adorable and delicious! I am pinning them to my board!
YUM!!
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these are so on my list of cookies to make, they always sounded so good. And I love how you decorated them, simple but they look so good.
These look delicious, I have to try them out. I can’t wait to check out the rest of your blog considering it says chocolate!! my fav! I’m your newest follower I’d love it if you followed me back! http://bridgetbakes.blogspot.com/
I want these cookies. Right now. Yum!!
Wow these cookies are both pretty and very yummy looking! Thanks for linking up to the Tuesday Talent Show! I hope to see you again next week!
-Nikki
Chef in Training
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This is really delicious! I’ll make some of these later. It also might be a great idea to bake these this weekend. Thank you so much!
Can I use all butter instead of shortening? I can’t get shortening here in Tunisia but would love to make these.
You probably can but I haven’t tried it. If you make them, let me know how they turn out!