Monday, January 16, 2012

Double Chocolate Freckles


Another winner from the Women's Weekly "Cookies" book.

Ingredients
125g butter, softened
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1/4 cup self-raising flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
200g dark chocolate, melted
1/3 cup hundreds and thousands

Method
Beat butter, sugar and egg in small bowl with electric mixer until combined.  Stir in sifted dry ingredients, in two batches.

Knead dough on floured surface until smooth; roll dough between sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick.  Cover, refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees or 160 fan-forced.  Grease oven trays; line with baking paper.

Cut rounds from dough using a circle cutter. Place on oven trays.

Bake for about 12 minutes, and cool on wire racks.

Spread tops of cookies with chocolate; sprinkle with hundreds and thousands (I found it easiest to put hundreds and thousands on a saucer and just dip the cookies straight in it).  Set at room temperature.

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