Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Name: Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters butter, softened; 1 large egg; 532 milliliters all-purpose flour; 0 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 177 milliliters unsweetened cocoa

Chocolate Sugar Cookies is a vegetarian recipe with 12 servings. One portion of this dish contains approximately 4g of protein, 17g of fat, and a total of 303 calories. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as a very reasonably priced dessert for Christmas. Head to the store and pick up butter, egg, cocoa, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy.

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Add egg, beating until blended.

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Egg

Combine flour, cocoa, and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating just until blended.

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Butter

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Divide dough into 2 equal portions; flatten each portion into a disk. Cover and chill 10 minutes.

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Place 1 portion of dough on a lightly floured surface, and roll to 1/8-inch thickness.

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Roll

Cut with a 3- or 4 1/2-inch butterfly-shaped cutter.

Place cookies 2 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Repeat procedure with remaining dough portion.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Bake, in batches, at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes (for 3-inch cookies) and 15 to 17 minutes (for 4 1/2-inch cookies) or until edges are lightly browned.

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Let cool on baking sheets 5 minutes; remove to wire racks, and let cool 30 minutes or until completely cool. Decorate baked cookies as desired.

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Vanilla Sugar Cookies: Omit unsweetened cocoa. Increase flour to 3 cups. Beat in 1 tsp. vanilla extract with butter in Step Proceed with recipe as directed.

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Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

Vanilla Extract