Chocolate Buttons
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Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (12.4 g)
- Calories 21.6
- Total Fat - 0.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.5 g
- Cholesterol - 2.2 mg
- Sodium - 15.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 3.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.3 g
- Sugars - 2.7 g
- Protein - 0.5 g
- Calcium - 12.4 mg
- Iron - 0.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375F
Step 2
In a large mixing bowl, beat together first 5 ingredients
Step 3
Beat in baking soda and as much flour as you can. Mix in remaining flour with a spoon
Step 4
Shape dough into a ball and divide in half
Step 5
Roll out half of the dough between two sheets of waxed paper, to 1/16 inch thickness
Step 6
Cut out 1 - 1 1/2 inch round cookies and place cut outs on an ungreased cookie sheet
Step 7
Bake 4-5 minutes, until edges are firm
Step 8
Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute, then transfer to wire racks to cool
Step 9
For the icing, melt the chocolate and shortening over low heat.
Step 10
Remove from heat and stir in mint extract
Step 11
Let chocolate mixture stand just until cool enough to handle, then transfer to a piping bag and snip off the tip
Step 12
Drizzle chocolate over cooled cookies, or pipe on chocolate to make cookies look like buttons
Step 13
Let cookies stand until icing hardens
Tips
No special items needed.