Chocolate Cut Out Cookies
Chocolate cut-out cookies made with cocoa and melted chocolate for tender chocolate cookies you'll enjoy year-round.
Servings: 36 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup melted and cooled chocolate I use cooled 60% cacao Ghiradelli Chips
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa I use Dutch process
- 3 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- * If you prefer your cookies sweeter add 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar
Instructions
- In a large mixer bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add egg, vanilla extract melted and cooled chocolate, and cocoa mix thoroughly.
- Add in flour, baking powder, and salt, and mix until all are combined.
- Roll out cookies in between wax paper to ¼ inch thick and cut with a cookie cutter.
- I use 2 wooden 1/4" dowels to ensure all my cookies are the same even thickness.
- Once the cookies are cut out, use the scraps, and make a ball with it, then roll it out flat again and cut the remaining cookies.
- Place cookies onto parchment-lined baking sheets and bake at 400 degrees for 7 minutes.
- Edges will be firm but not browned.
- Cool cookies completely on a baking sheet before moving and icing.
Notes
You can scoop out cookie dough into tablespoon-sized balls and roll them in coarse sugar, sprinkles, or jimmies, then place them on parchment-lined cookie sheets and flatten them slightly with the bottom of a smooth glass to make them into a disk shape.