BATTER UP! Chocolate Italian Cookies with Chocolate Glaze Icing

September 11, 2009
A bunch of cookies to take to the bit GAME!
Play Ball!
The bats are chocolate cookies with chocolate icing.

 

Italian Cookie Recipe
5eggs
1 1/2cups butter melted and cooled (10 minutes)
5 cups flour
(for chocolate cookies use 4 cups flour, 1 cup cocoa)
1 ¾ sugar
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
In medium bowl whisk eggs and melted butter.
In large bowl stir together flour, sugar and baking powder, make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the egg mixture then vanilla.  Mix until shiny. About 2 minutes. Cover bowl with waxed paper and let the dough stand at room temperature for 20 minutes
Heat oven to 350 degrees roll out dough with flour and cut with cookie cutter. Bake 12 minutes
Makes at least 5 dozen (3inch) cookies.
Let cookies completely cool before icing.
Chocolate Glaze Icing
 1/2 cup cocoa powder
 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon corn syrup
4 Tablespoons milk/water
Mix powdered sugar, cocoa with corn syrup and water or milk until smooth and creamy. Apply to cooled cookies.

I made Dark Chocolate Glaze Icing and LOVED. I used Hershey’s Dark Cocoa

 


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    Jaime says:
    May 21, 2010 at 12:35 am

    These are so cute, they would be perfect for the end of season T-Ball party, i might just be making these. Did you use a bat shaped cookie cutter?

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