Chocolate Sugar Cookies

November 22nd, 2009 by justJENN

For the Baby’s BATMAN birthday party I did a Gotham City Cake, Batman cupcakes and I laid out a bunch of snacks in jars (here) for the guests to serve themselves. I can’t leave well enough alone with a theme, so since it was Batman themed – I rolled out chocolate cookies and cut them into…bats of course! Dipping them in sanding sugar made them even more fun to eat!

Sugar cookies came to mind because I use A LOT of sugar. I actually passed a 25lb pound bag at Costco and it gave me pause – that’s when you know you bake too much. Luckily C&H sent me a $20 gift card! C&H has a lot of great holiday baking ideas on their website – it is the only sugar I use, maybe because our family is from Hawaii and I used to love driving by the sugar cane fields. Plus they had such memorable jingles!!

ingredients:
2-3/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup unsalted butter
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven at 350 degrees.

In a bowl whisk together the flour, salt, cinnamon, baking powder and cocoa. Set aside.

In the bowl of an electrc mixer, cream the butter and sugar. Carefully add the eggs and vanilla.

Add the flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Wrap in plastic and just chill. A few hours should do it but if you are impatient, like moi, throw it in the freezer for a bit.

When you are ready, roll out cookie dough onto a well floured surface. This dough is a little sticky so working fast and with cold dough will get you done in no time.

Cut out your shapes – in this case…BATS for the Batman party. After the shapes were cut out I dipped the edges with sanding sugar. It gives it a little extra crunch and looks festive.

Bake for approx 10 minutes give or take depending on your oven. Let cool on wire racks.

These are a nice cookie on their own, but imagine making an ice cream sandwich out of them?? Or you can just throw ’em in a jar and invite Batman over.