CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM COOKIES
Chocolate Buttercream Cookies
Ingredients
½ cup butter
½ cup sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoons baking powder
1½ cups flour
Filling
¼ cup butter
6 – 8 tablespoons icing sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla flavoring 
1 oz Unsweetened Chocolate
(Melted)
Method
1.       Preheat oven to 350°F.
2.      In
a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer.
3.      Beat
in egg and vanilla.
4.      Mix
baking powder and flour, add half cup at a time, mixing
after each addition.  The dough will be very stiff; blend
last flour in by hand (if dough becomes too stiff, add water, a teaspoon at a
time).  Do not chill dough.
5.       Roll
out dough to about ¼ inch thick and cut with Linzer Cutter Set to desired
shapes.
6.       Bake for
10 – 12 minutes or until baked golden brown.  Cool on cooling rack.
7.       Prepare
buttercream filling but creaming butter and gradually adding icing sugar.  Add vanilla and chocolate. 
8.       Take
about a ¼ - ½ teaspoon of buttercream and place on the bottom half of the
Linzer cookie and top with the other top half. 
Note:  Dough can be tinted with icing Color.  Add small amounts
until desired color is reached.
For chocolate cookies:  Stir in 3 ounces melted,
unsweetened chocolate.  Divide dough into 2 balls.  On a floured
surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 inches in diameter and ⅛
in thick.  Dip cutters in flour before each use.  Bake cookies on an
ungreased cookie sheet on top rack of oven to 6 – 7 minutes, or until cookies
are lightly browned.   Makes 20 -24 average size cookies.
Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman
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