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| Chocolate cookie dough |
I have been wanting to make chocolate cookie dough for ages and finally have done it. These smell like brownies while baking, very rich chocolate flavour and make fantastic cutout cookies.
1 cup/230g butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups plain flour/all-purpose flour
2/3 cups unsweetened cocoa
1/2 spoon salt
Beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Add flour, cocoa and salt and blend well. Once the dough has formed, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 1 hour, or until it is firm.
Preheat oven to 160 deg Celsius. Roll out dough on parchment paper that has been lightly floured and cut out cookies. Bake cookies for 10 to 15 min. Baking time depends on the size of the cookies and because these are chocolate you can't see the 'edges browning', so they are ready when you gently touch them and no indentation remains (gently!!). Once removed from the oven allow them to cool slightly on the baking tray before cooling completely on a baking rack, they will harden up once cooled completely.
Decorate as desired.
NOTE - This dough is very firm once cooled - see cookie tips for rolling dough.
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| Decorated using royal icing |
