Chocolate Cutout Cookies
Off-white sugar cookies are not the only cookies you can use for making cutout cookies. I wanted to change things up and try a Chocolate Cutout Cookie. We’ve been slowly amassing a pile a cookie cutters, so why not give it a shot with the kids?
I really like the flavor and texture of the cookie, but I seem to be the minority in my family. (They wanted there to be chocolate chips in it? I put a glaze on it!) The recipe was easy to make, even if the dough was really sticky – easily fixed with more flour or cocoa powder.
These cookies would make great bats at Halloween, or in the case of these cookies an elegant, simple chocolate cookie like below. Also a great cookie to pack and ship during the holidays (as seen above).
Chocolate Cutout Cookies
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups white sugar
- 1 egg
Optional: Quick Decorating Icing (See at end)
Directions:
- In a separate bowl – sift together: flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
- In a bowl of a mixer, cream sugar and butter until smooth
- Add: Egg
- Add: sifted ingredients until a smooth, soft dough is formed.
- Divide and flatten dough. Refrigerate in two separate pieces for approximately two hours.
- Pre-heat oven to 375 F degrees.
- Remove chilled dough and roll on a lightly floured (or cocoa powdered) surface.
- Cut using cookie cutters and place cookies about 1 inch apart on cookie sheet.
- Bake 7-10 minutes and allow cookies to cool on baking sheet before to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Step By Step Cookie Directions
- In a separate bowl – sift together: flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
- In a bowl of a mixer, cream sugar and butter until smooth
- Add: Egg
- Add: sifted ingredients until a smooth, soft dough is formed.
- Divide and flatten dough. Refrigerate in two separate pieces for approximately two hours.
- Pre-heat oven to 375 F degrees.
- Remove chilled dough and roll on a lightly floured (or cocoa powdered) surface.
- Cut using cookie cutters and place cookies about 1 inch apart on cookie sheet.
- Bake 7-10 minutes and allow cookies to cool on baking sheet before to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Optional: Quick Decorating Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp flavoring (orange, peppermint)
- Water
- Mix powdered sugar and flavoring.
- Slowly add water to mixture until it lightly coats the back of a spoon. (Take some of the icing and make shapes on a piece of wax paper. It should hold its shape and harden within a few minutes.)
- Place in a piping bag with a #2, #3 or #4 tip and go crazy!