Shortbread Play-dough

These cookies are made by mixing chocolate and vanilla shortbread cookie dough to make awesome designs.  Anything you want really. It's a lot of fun to try and figure out how to make new designs.  I really like to make a checkerboard cookie and I always make a marbled cookie with the leftover scraps of dough.

The dough is formed into a log, so you just have to slice off however many cookies you'd like to eat, and refrigerate the rest!

This recipe was found in "Wacky Cakes and Kooky Cookies," a bargin bin purchase at Barnes & Noble.

Step 1 Mix doughs

Vanilla Shortbread

1 1/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 medium egg yolk
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons salted butter, diced
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted

Put sugar, vanilla, egg yolk and butter in a bowl and mix.  Then add the flour until just combined.  Shape the firm dough into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap.  Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

Chocolate Shortbread
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1 medium egg yolk
1 cup plus
2 tablespoons salted butter, diced
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
Put sugar, egg yolk and butter in a bowl and mix. Then add the flour and cocoa until just combined. Shape the firm dough into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap.  Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

Comments

[mguer133]

I work for Gerhard in London, he would love to know his recipes are on Instructable!

[mogo crispy]

Tell him I LOVE his cookies!

[scoochmaroo]

Yum. Fun and delicious!

[ChrysN]

Awesome looking cookies!