Chocolate Shortbread X-Mas Trees

Submitted by Ashley U

"For a pretty gift, stack a few cookies, wrap in colored plastic food wrap and tie with raffia"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 40mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 36 cookies

ingredients

• COOKIE

• 236.59 ml powdered sugar
• 236.59 ml butter, softened
• 414.03 ml flour
• 78.78 ml unsweetened cocoa
• 4.92 ml vanilla
• 2.46 ml ground cinnamon

• ICING

• 354.88 ml white chocolate chips
• 29.58 ml shortening
• decorator sugar

directions

1. Heat oven to 350°.
2. Combine powdered sugar and butter in mixer bowl.
3. Beat until creamy, 1-2 minutes.
4. Add flour, cocoa, vanilla, cinnamon until well mixed for about 1-2 minutes.
5. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface one-half at a time (keeping remaining dough refrigerated), to 1/4-inch thickness.
6. Cut with X-mas tree cookie cutters.
7. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
8. Melt baking chips and shortening in 1-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring occasionally until smooth.
9. After cookies are cooled, drizzle glaze over cookies.
10. Let stand until set.

Reviews

[spatchcock]

These were wonderful--made them for my cookie boxes this year. I decorated them with the white icing in the recipe and some green and red sprinkles and they were so cute! They were rather soft-a nice texture for a cutout cookie--and the cinnamon/cocoa combination was really, really nice. Excellent! I'm sure I'll make them next year, too. thanks!

 

[MissyIffy]

NOT really shortbread, but good! The kids I baked them for said they were "yummy!"

 

[Pieki2cute]

i just made them. The dough turned out perfectly. I added the extra 1/4 cup flour like the one rating suggested. Glad you added this recipe!

 

[CoffeeBean]

I hate to bring the rating down on these because they really were delicious. However, I had quite a hard time working with the dough even though I kept it refrigerated. No amount of flour could keep it from sticking to either the rolling pin or the working surface. :( Cutting out was a disaster as well so I ended up making little balls and flattening them with a fork. Will definately be trying my hand at these again.

 

[lilquiz]

This is probably one of the best chocolate shortbreads I've come across. I'm pretty picky on the process of putting the dough together because I make a lot of shortbread and know what constistancy the dough should be when I pull it off that mixer. I creamed the butter and then added the suger beating that combination until fluffy.Add vanilla. I mixed the flour, chocolate (I used the Hersheys Special Dark or use European Style Dutched if you are a chocolate junky),cinnamon and a pinch of salt. Slowly add to the butter mixture. You know the dough is the right texture when it pulls away from the sides and clumps together. With this recipe, I had to add an extra 1/4 cup flour to achieve this. Chill dough until it is workable without a sticky mess, cut out and bake. Thank you Ashley for your contribution, your cookie recipe brightened my holiday!