Cocoa Cookies With Cocoa Glaze
Recipe: #20897
September 08, 2015
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Christmas, Game/Sports Day, Oven Bake Vegetarian, Cut Out, Flour, Chocolate, Kosher Dairy, more
"A soft chocolate cookie. Adapted from The Pioneer Lady's Country Christmas. You may get more than 3 dozen; it depends on how big you make them. I usually leave out the cinnamon. You may also use less salt."
Ingredients
- COOKIES
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- COCOA GLAZE
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (60.6 g)
- Calories 203.1
- Total Fat - 8 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.8 g
- Cholesterol - 36.1 mg
- Sodium - 126.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 31 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 15.8 g
- Protein - 3.4 g
- Calcium - 49.3 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Step 2
Sift dry ingredients together and set aside.
Step 3
Cream butter and sugar together.
Step 4
Add enough boiling water to cocoa to make a paste.
Step 5
Beat into butter mixture.
Step 6
Stir in milk, cinnamon and vanilla.
Step 7
Add flour mixture and stir to make a stiff dough.
Step 8
Roll out and cut out cookies.
Step 9
Place 2" apart on greased cookie sheet.
Step 10
Bake at 375° until lightly browned, about 10-15 minutes.
Step 11
Cool completely.
Step 12
For the glaze, combine butter and milk in top of double boiler and heat just until butter melts.
Step 13
Add enough boiling water to cocoa to make a paste.
Step 14
Stir cocoa mixture into butter mixture.
Step 15
Add vanilla, then powdered sugar.
Step 16
If glaze is too thick, add a little more milk.
Step 17
Frost cookies when cool.
Tips
No special items needed.