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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 Time
30 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
50 mins
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 70 kcal
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
International
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 Information
Calories
70kcal
(4%)
Carbohydrates
9g
(3%)
Protein
1g
(2%)
Fat
4g
(6%)
Saturated Fat
2g
(10%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
0.2g
Monounsaturated Fat
1g
Trans Fat
0.1g
Cholesterol
17mg
(6%)
Sodium
28mg
(1%)
Potassium
27mg
(1%)
Fiber
1g
(4%)
Sugar
4g
(8%)
Vitamin A
115IU
(2%)
Calcium
4mg
(0%)
Iron
0.4mg
(2%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 24cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 70
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 70kcal | 4% |
| Carbohydrates | 9g | 3% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 4g | 6% |
| Saturated Fat | 2g | 10% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.2g | 1% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Trans Fat | 0.1g | 5% |
| Cholesterol | 17mg | 6% |
| Sodium | 28mg | 1% |
| Potassium | 27mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 4g | 8% |
| Vitamin A | 115IU | 2% |
| Calcium | 4mg | 0% |
| Iron | 0.4mg | 2% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.