Chocolate and Vanilla Sugar Cookies

Updated at: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:58:14 GMT

Step 1

FOR CHOCOLATE SUGAR COOKIES:

Step 2

Beat sugar and butter together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and beat to combine.

Step 3

In a large bowl, sift together the cocoa powder, flour, baking powder, and salt. Whisk further to combine.

Step 4

Add the dry ingredients a little at a time, to the butter mixture, scraping down the bowl as needed.

Step 5

Divide the dough into 2 balls, flatten into disks and wrap up in the parchment paper. Refrigerate a minimum of 2 hours.

Step 6

Roll cookies out to 1/8" thick (3 mm) leaving the dough on the parchment paper. Cut out the Christmas Tree cookies, transfer to a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Cut out the heart inserts in the center of all the trees.

Step 7

Place the tray in the freezer or refrigerator while rolling out the vanilla sugar cookie dough. It's important the trees stay chilled in order to retain their shape.

Step 8

Roll out the vanilla dough to 1/8-inch thick (3 mm). Then using the same mini heart cutter cut out half the amount of hearts for filling. I like to keep half the trees as silhouettes, and half-filled with the vanilla hearts.

Step 9

Place the vanilla dough hearts inside the trees.

Step 10

Bake at 350F (175C) for 12 minutes for a 3-inch (7.6cm) Christmas tree.

Step 11

Then roll out the vanilla dough and cut out 6-8 2-inch hearts (5cm) and bake those on a separate tray at 350F (175C) 8-9 minutes

Step 12

Keep these hearts refrigerated until ready to bake.

Step 13

Allow to cool completely and then package them up for gifting!

Step 14

FOR VANILLA SUGAR COOKIES:

Step 15

Beat sugar and butter together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and beat to combine.

Step 16

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Step 17

Add the dry ingredients a little at a time, to the butter mixture, scraping down the bowl as needed.

Step 18

Divide the dough into 2 balls, flatten into disks and wrap up in the parchment paper. Refrigerate a minimum of 2 hours.

Step 19

Roll cookies out to 1/8" thick (3 mm) leaving the dough on the parchment paper. Cut out the cookies, transfer to a parchment-lined cookie sheet.

Step 20

Bake at 350F (175C) for 12-14 minutes for the House. Bake 8-9 minutes for the 2-inch (5 cm) hearts.

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