Black & Cut-outs

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar, granulated
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 2 tablespoons flour, additional divided
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 115 g chocolate
• 115 g semisweet chocolate

Recipe

• 1 beat butter, granulated sugar amd brown sugar in a bowl until light & fluffy. then beat in eggs. one by one; add vanilla. combine 2 3/4 cups flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl; then add to the butter mix. beat well; reserve half of dough.
• 2 to make chocolate dough, beat cocoa in to remaining dough until well blended. to make butter cookie dough, beat remaining 2 tbsp of flour in to reserved cookie dough.
• 3 flatten each dough in to a disc; wrap in plastic and refrigerate 1 1/2 hrs or until firm. (dough can be refrigerated for 3 days before baking).
• 4 preheat oven to 190°c.
• 5 working with one color of dough at a time, place on lightly flored surface. roll out to 1/4 inch thickness. place cut outs 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets (silpat is great!).
• 6 bake for 9-11 minutes or until set. let cookies stand for 2 minutes. remove to wire racks ad let cool completely.
• 7 for chocolate drizzle, place baking bar pieces in a small ziploc bag and seal. heat in microwave oven at medium (50% of power) 1 minute. turn bag over; heat at same temp for an additional 1 - 2 minutes or until melted. knead bag until chocolate is smooth. cut off a very tiny corner of the bag; then pipe or drizzle chocolate on to brown chocolate cookies. let stand until chocolate is set, about 1/2 hours.
• 8 do the inverse for the brown chocolate on cookies.
• 9 black and chocolate sandwiches: prepare dugh and roll as directed. cut out both doughs with same cookie cutter. bake as directed above. make cookie sandwiches spreading a thin layer of prepared frosting on bottom side of alternate cookies and joining pairs (bottoms to bottoms). last but not least,drizzle alternate melted chocolate over cookies.