Present Box Cookies
- 1 all Cookie Dough
- 1 dash bit Chocolate
- 1 Dragees
- Make half of the cookie dough chocolate and the other half plain, and chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour to cool.
- Put a little of the chocolate dough aside for the ribbon later.
- Flatten the dough into rectangles about 17 x 10 cm and 6-7 mm thick.
- Cut in half lengthwise.
- Put one strip of chocolate dough in between the two strips of plain and line them up so the edges are neat.
- Chill in the refrigerator to harden.
- Also go ahead and put the extra strip of chocolate dough in the refrigerator.
- Cut the dough from Step 3 into four even pieces.
- Then cut three of those pieces in half again.
- Flatten the remaining strip of chocolate dough so it matches the width of three of the pieces from Step 4.
- Cut into three strips.
- Put the chocolate strips from Step 5 in between the mixed strips from Step 4, and work with the dough to form into a square.
- You now have three pieces with a chocolate cross shape.
- There wasn't enough chocolate dough for the cookie dough from earlier... Harden the dough in the refrigerator.
- Once the dough has hardened, cut into cubes.
- You can probably get 9-10 cubes from each log.
- Bake the cookie cubes in the oven for 15 minutes at 170C (340F) and then lower the heat to 160C (320F) for 5 more minutes.
- They're done baking.
- The top should be lightly baked and the bottom should be nice and crispy.
- They are thick cookies, so make sure they are cooked all the way through.
- Using leftover chocolate dough from Step 1, cut out squares and use them to make ribbons like in the picture.
- Bake the ribbons for 8 minutes at 170C (338F).
- These are really small so be careful not to burn them.
- Once the ribbons have cooled, use melted chocolate as glue to stick a dragee in the middle of each ribbon.
- I put yellow dragees on the ribbons.
- Put chocolate on the present boxes too and stick dragees.
- I used silver ones.
- Put three on each side and one on each band of chocolate on the top.
- Lastly, stick the ribbon on with chocolate.
- Put the cookies in the refrigerator so they cool.
- And now you're done!
- It's a lot of work, but they turn out really cute.
dough, chocolate, dragees
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/145692-present-box-cookies (may not work)