Decorate Cookies With Chocolate

In a large bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy 5 7 minutes.

Decorate cookies with chocolate. Then your salt and baking powder. Other ways to decorate royal icing cookies. Now for the flour btw i sifted mine.

Don t worry about the dots. Cream butter shortening and sugar together. At her store baked ideas in new york city she churns out some of the most inventive and impossibly beautiful cookies y.

Melt chocolate melts in whatever color you choose and put in a piping bag. Pipe over them like they don t exist and your cookies will look nice and full like a real chocolate chip cookie. Of course make sure all ingredients are at room temperature.

If using a microwave to melt the chocolate place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and microwave on 50 power in 15 second bursts stirring after each burst to make sure the chocolate doesn t burn until melted and smooth. When the first coat has set apply another color of chocolate. Try dipping one half of each cookie in dark chocolate and the other half in white.

In another bowl whisk flour cocoa baking powder and salt. Just pipe and flood a large area with white or light pastel colored icing let dry completely then go crazy with the color markers. Cookies can be finished with a variety of items such as candy corn gumdrops nuts raisins candied fruit miniature chocolate chips sprinkles and colored sugars.

Chop the chocolate into small even pieces. This will give you good control for decorating the cookie though it s not strictly necessary. After you pipe the tan icing use a turkey lacer or scribe tool to smooth it out.