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Prep Time: 30 Minutes Cook Time: 120 Minutes |
Ready In: 150 Minutes Servings: 2 |
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Delicious cookies, specially if you make sandwiches of B&W cookies glued together with chocolate. Drizzle with contrast chocolate! Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened |
3/4 cup sugar, granulated |
3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed |
2 eggs |
1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
2 3/4 cups flour |
2 tablespoons flour, additional divided |
1 teaspoon baking soda |
3/4 teaspoon salt |
1/4 cup cocoa powder |
115 g white chocolate |
115 g semisweet chocolate |
Directions:
1. Beat butter, granulated sugar amd brown sugar in a bowl until light & fluffy. Then beat in eggs. one by one; add vanilla. Combine 2 3/4 cups flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl; then add to the butter mix. Beat well; reserve half of dough.
2. To make chocolate dough, beat cocoa in to remaining dough until well blended. To make butter cookie dough, beat remaining 2 tbsp of flour in to reserved cookie dough.
3. Flatten each dough in to a disc; wrap in plastic and refrigerate 1 1/2 hrs or until firm. (Dough can be refrigerated for 3 days before baking).
4. Preheat oven to 190°C.
5. Working with one color of dough at a time, place on lightly flored surface. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness. Place cut outs 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets (Silpat is great!).
6. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until set. Let cookies stand for 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks ad let cool completely.
7. For white chocolate drizzle, place baking bar pieces in a small ziploc bag and seal. Heat in microwave oven at medium (50% of power) 1 minute. Turn bag over; heat at same temp for an additional 1 - 2 minutes or until melted. Knead bag until white chocolate is smooth. Cut off a very tiny corner of the bag; then pipe or drizzle white chocolate on to brown chocolate cookies. Let stand until chocolate is set, about 1/2 hours.
8. Do the inverse for the brown chocolate on white cookies.
9. Black and White Chocolate Sandwiches: Prepare dugh and roll as directed. Cut out both doughs with same cookie cutter. Bake as directed above. Make cookie sandwiches spreading a thin layer of prepared frosting on bottom side of alternate cookies and joining pairs (bottoms to bottoms). Last but not least,drizzle alternate melted chocolate over cookies.
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