Dark Chocolate and Peppermint Stars
These dark chocolate and peppermint stars are a fun, festive cookie that are perfect served alongside an after dinner coffee or hot chocolate.
Servings: 25 cookies
Equipment
- A cookie cutter of your choosing!
Ingredients
- 450 grams unsalted butter
- 400 grams caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 4 drops peppermint essence
- 560 grams plain flour
- 190 grams cocoa powder
- 50 grams milk chocolate
- 50 grams white chocolate
Instructions
- Cream together the butter and the sugar, by hand, in a large bowl until just incorporated.
- Slowly add the eggs, again beating the mixture by hand.
- Add the peppermint and stir until the peppermint is throughout the mix.
- Add the flour and cocoa powder to the bowl and, using a spatula, begin to mix the wet and dry ingredients.
- As the ingredients come together, use your hands to work the ingredients into a dough.
- Place the dough in the fridge for at least an hour (or roll out until it is roughly 0.5cm thick and refrigerate for at least half an hour).
- Roll out the dough on a very lightly floured surface and cut out using a star cookie cutter.
- Place the cookies back into the fridge for at least another 10 minutes before baking in the centre of your oven for 8-12 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool completely before moving on to decoration.
- To decorate, melt the milk chocolate and poor into a small disposable icing bag.
- Cut a very small hole into the end of the piping bag and drizzle across the top of the cookies.
- Repeat the process with the white chocolate.
- Leave the chocolate to cool and set completely before eating.