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Rudolph Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Rudolph Chocolate Shortbread Cookies, a fantastic family-friendly Christmas treat. The chocolate shortbread cookies are rich and intensely chocolatey, with a good snap, and they stay crunchy for days. Using a reindeer cookie cutter makes them look so festive and full of Christmas cheer. So easy to make and so delicious!
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time50 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: International
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 70kcal
Author: Daniela Apostol

Ingredients

  • 120 g plain flour ( 1 cup)
  • 100 g icing sugar (¾ cup)
  • 30 g cocoa powder ( 2 tbsp)
  • 100 g butter, soft ( ½ cup)
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • red sprinkles for decorating (optional)

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 Fahrenheit, 160 fan oven).
  • In a large mixing bowl, add the soft butter, sift in the icing sugar, and use a hand mixer to beat them together until creamy.
  • Add the egg yolk and beat again.
  • Sift in the flour and cocoa powder, add the vanilla extract and use your hands to knead everything into a dough.
  • Dust some flour onto the work surface, and roll the dough thinly.
  • Use a reindeer-shaped cookie cutter to cu out cookies.
  • Arrange them onto 2 or 3 baking trays, and bake them into the preheated oven, working in batches, for 10 minutes.
  • Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool down completely.
  • Stick the red sprinkles onto the reindeers' noses using melted chocolate, buttercream or honey.

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Notes

  • Adding cocoa powder to the dough makes it a lot denser than a regular shortbread cookie dough, I find that there is no need to chill the dough before rolling it and baking the cookies.
  • The dough will be quite crumbly, and you can add a splash of cold water as you would do for a shortcrust pastry if the dough is not coming together well. Every brand of flour is different, some flour would be denser than others.
 

Nutrition

Calories: 70kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 28mg | Potassium: 27mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 115IU | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 0.4mg