Chocolate reindeer cookies is a Christmas recipe to make with children perfect, because if for example you make a little hole in the top of the cookie, with a skewer stick before baking it, then you can hang them on the Christmas tree, something that children will love.
They are also chocolate and I know a few children who resist this ingredient so I am sure they will have a great time making and enjoying these delicious cookies. I saw the idea of decoration on Pinterest and I loved it from the first moment since it is very simple, so does not entail any difficulty for the children of the house.
Ingredients for 16 cookies
- For the dough: 350 grams of pastry flour, 50 grams of pure cocoa powder, 1 pinch of salt, 125 grams of icing sugar, 200 grams of butter in an ointment, 1 M egg, vanilla powder.
- For decoration: White chocolate cover, red Lacasito candies, pastry bag, fine nozzle.
How to make chocolate reindeer cookies
Beat the butter with the sugar until you get a soft cream. Add the egg and vanilla and continue beating until everything is integrated. Little by little we pour the sifted flour with the cocoa and the pinch of salt and mix until it forms a dough. The dough should be like plasticine, a little softer.
We divide the dough into two parts, flatten it a little, wrap in transparent film and refrigerate for at least two hours, until it hardens. Preheat the oven to 180º with heat up and down. We place the dough on a sheet of baking paper, cover with another sheet so that it does not adhere to the roller, and stretch it with a thickness of one centimeter.
We cut circular portions with the help of a round pasta cutter or a glass simply. We place very carefully, so that they do not deform, the cookies on a non-stick baking sheet or on a greased plate or lined with baking paper.
We bake the cookies for about 12 minutes, we took them out, let stand on the tray five minutes and we pass them to a rack until they are completely cold to decorate them. To decorate them, we will melt the chocolate in the water bath or in the microwave very carefully since the white chocolate is more delicate, we put it in a pastry bag with a fine nozzle and we mark several chocolate dots on each cookie.
One that will make glue for the nose, two dots that will make reindeer eyes and then for the little horns. Let the chocolate dry before eating the cookies. They are kept in perfect condition for several days if we keep them from moisture.
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I hope you liked these Chocolate reindeer cookies to make with the little ones in the house. They are perfect to take in the snack with a large glass of milk, or even to put them on the tray of Christmas sweets or hang them from the Christmas tree.
