I made some cookies yesterday from one of the cookbooks I’ve been wanting to dig into.
Home. Made. Oreos.
And all Halloween like with orange creme centers, too. So fun!
I found the recipe in Flour [3] by Joanne Chang. This book is full of treats I want to try. Especially the Brioche au chocolat and vanilla cream filled doughnuts. Oh my. But I needed much more time for those … oh and yeast.
And since I always try to keep chocolate on hand… well, these cookies were an easy choice.
For the cookies, you need butter, flour, sugar, cocoa (dutch process), chocolate, 1 egg, vanilla, baking soda and salt.
Melted butter and chocolate … yeah, this is heading in the right direction.
Add the butter to the sugar and whisk away.
Then keep on going with the vanilla and melted chocolate.
Add zee egg.
Now whisk the cocoa, flour, soda and salt in another bowl.
I love love love to see cocoa blend with flour and watch the two colors mix together.
It makes me happy.
Add the flour and cocoa mixture to the chocolate mixture and stir together until the dough forms.
Shape the dough in to a log and wrap in wax paper. (I made two sizes to play around with)
Chill. And chill out because you need to let it firm up for a couple of hours…
… So you can cut out cookie slices. And if you’re like me, you’ll probably still be compelled to make the edges perfectly round.
Even though you waited all that time for it to chill so you could slice it.
But definitely not a requirement. Just a compulsion.
Bake them and sandwich them with vanilla cream filling… tinted orange if you’re in a Halloween kind of mood.
Cute!
Creamless are good, too.
So I didn’t stop there, since I was already breaking out my round cutters, I finally opened up some mini cutters I’ve had for like three years.
A $2.99 Hobby Lobby score I’ve neglected to use the past couple of Halloweens.
I chose the cats. I was in a kitty kind of mood. I’ll show you why at the end of the post.
Slice the dough and then just use a cutter to make fun shapes.
For the cats, I used a skewer to make simple details. The flat end worked great for the defining the ears and eyes. And the pointed end was great for whiskers.
Mini Meow Meows!
Yum! Yum!
Recipe from Flour reprinted with permission from Chronicle Books.
Okay… now I’ll show you why I had kitties on the brain this weekend.
I am so excited to share another project I created for Woman’s Day Magazine. Check out these cute cat scratch cupcakes in the October issue! It’s on stands now if you want to get a copy. Meow. Meow.
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