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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Michaela says
January 16, 2012 at 3:16 pmI am in chocolate heart love with these little beauties!! I can’t wait to make them!! <3
Lisa @ Flour Me With Love says
January 16, 2012 at 5:41 pmOh these are adorable! Thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday, I hope to see you again next week 🙂
Giselle says
January 16, 2012 at 6:35 pmThese look delicious!
Clairejustine says
January 16, 2012 at 9:28 pmThese look great,I love chocolate:) ,Thank you for sharing them with us at Creative Mondays 🙂
Chandani Shrestha says
January 16, 2012 at 11:15 pmFirst of all I had to wait few mins before I could type. Looks like you have found my weakness. And perfect for valentine.
Pat's Pink Apron says
January 16, 2012 at 9:26 pmThese look tasty and nice and uniform. Thanks for sharing. Pat
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
January 17, 2012 at 2:33 amI love that recipe! And I never thought to do white chocolate drizzle. Great tip!
Susan-The Weekly Sweet Experiment says
January 17, 2012 at 3:01 amI am going to have to try that recipe. They look great!
CraveCute says
January 17, 2012 at 2:01 pmThese look adorable and delicious! I am pinning them to my board!
Allison says
January 17, 2012 at 2:52 pmYUM!!
I invite you to link up this (or any other Valentine’s Day themed posts) at the Find Some Love Fest on February 1st! 5 blogs, 1 link up!
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Mindie Hilton says
January 17, 2012 at 3:54 pmLove your cookies! I have a weekly fri-monday linky Anything goes I would love for you to join. I am also hosting a Valentine contest and your v posts could win you some great prizes. Come link up for a chance to win.
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Sue @ Cakeballs, cookies and more says
January 18, 2012 at 2:19 pmthese 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.
Bridget says
January 19, 2012 at 1:09 amThese 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/
Farmgirl Gourmet says
January 19, 2012 at 3:34 amI want these cookies. Right now. Yum!!
Chef in Training says
January 22, 2012 at 3:45 amWow 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
http://www.chef-in-training.com
Learn2Serve Texas Food Handlers Certification says
May 28, 2012 at 2:53 amThis 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!
Jennifer Cox-Benzine says
February 12, 2013 at 2:55 pmCan I use all butter instead of shortening? I can’t get shortening here in Tunisia but would love to make these.
Joan Hayes says
February 13, 2013 at 12:04 amYou probably can but I haven’t tried it. If you make them, let me know how they turn out!