chocolate cut-out cookies
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Recipe type: easy, fatterning
Cuisine: American, dessert
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Serves: 30
 
These yummy, rich, tasty, cut-out cookies definitely require a glass of milk.
Ingredients
  • · 1 1/4 c. flour
  • · 1/4c. sugar
  • · 1/2 c. cold margarine or butter
  • · 1 14oz. can sweetened condensed milk
  • · 1/4 c. unsweetened cocoa
  • · 1 egg
  • · 1 t. vanilla extract
  • · 1/2 t. baking powder
  • · 1 8oz. milk chocolate bar, broken into chunks
  • · 3/4c. chopped nuts (optional)
  • other toppings-broken candy canes, M&Ms, chocolate covered pretzel bits, toffee pieces
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350*. Line 13x9 baking pan with foil, set aside.
  2. In bowl, combine 1 c. flour and sugar; cut in butter until crumbly. Press on the bottom of pan. Bake 15 mins.
  3. In another bowl, beat sweetened condensed milk, cocoa, egg, remaining 1/4c. flour, vanilla, and baking powder. Mix in chocolate pieces and nuts. Spread over prepared crust. Bake 20 min. or until set.
  4. Cool. Use foil to lift out of pan. Cut with cookie cutters. Store covered.
  5. Use cookie cutters to cut into shapes and decorate if desired.
Notes
A few variations on the cookies, because you all know that I experiment with every recipe I find. First, when mine first came out of the oven and were still quite warm, I took about a cup of Heath Toffee Bits and sprinkled them over half the cookie sheet and pressed down. That really made them so much better than the plain side. So with that in mind, next time I make these, I am going to experiment with other toppings to press into them while still warm--M&Ms, candy cane pieces, marshmallows, crushed Oreos, cut up Andes and so much more. Anything that goes with chocolate, I'm going to try it! Also, if you choose to do cut outs with this, don't use a cookie cutter that has lots of small appendages. You can see that my acorn stem and my leaf stem both broke off, were too small. I used a 6-pack of Hershey bars, which came to 9.5 oz total.
Recipe by Smart Spending Spot at https://smartspendingspot.com/recipe-best-easiest-chocolate-cut-out-cookies/