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    Home » Recipes » Christmas Cookies

    Chocolate Dipped Butter Cookies

    Published: Nov 30, 2022 · Modified: Jun 19, 2023 by Nora · This post may contain affiliate links · 7 Comments

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    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence.
    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence.
    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence.
    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence.
    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence.

    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in dark chocolate and eaten with indulgence. 

    Butter cookies drizzled with dark chocolate sauce.
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    A delightful fructose-free treat that is perfect for accompanying a cup of afternoon tea as well as for the annual Christmas baking! 

    During the preparation, you are left with two egg yolks. Use the egg yolks for making Linzer cookies with egg liqueur ganache!

    This way, you have prepared two Christmas recipes with those two eggs!

    Jump to:
    • 🥘 Ingredients
    • 🔪 Instructions
    • 🍫 Variations
    • 🍽 Equipment
    • 🌡 Storage
    • 💭 Top Tip
    • 📖 Recipe
    • 🎄 You might also like
    • ⛑️ Food Safety
    • 💬 Comments

    🥘 Ingredients

    Chocolate dipped butter cookies ingredients.
    • Unsalted butter - room temperature
    • Sugar
    • Vanilla bean - fresh. Do not throw away the remaining scraped out vanilla bean, instead re-use it to make homemade vanilla sugar!
    • Egg white
    • Pastry flour
    • Cornstarch
    • Dark chocolate couverture

    See the recipe card for quantities.

    Get your chocolate couverture at Prime Chocolate and save 10 % with the code ThankYouNora

    🔪 Instructions

    Step 1

    To avoid being bored or annoyed, later on, it is best to prepare everything we need first. 

    First, we need butter. Since you need soft butter at room temperature for this recipe, don't forget to take the butter out of the fridge in time. 

    Next, prepare the oven. We recommend preheating the oven right at the beginning. Thus, it is ready when your cookies are on the tray and just waiting to be baked. 🙂 So preheat your oven to 170 °C // 338 °F. 

    Cover the baking trays, in our case two, with baking paper and set aside a piping bag with a star-shaped tip to have it quickly at hand.

    My mom always said that order is half the battle. As a genuinely untidy person, I never had a thing for it. Funnily enough, it's different when it comes to baking. Here I like to have everything neat. 😀

    Snag your Christmas Cook(ie)book for more delicious cookie recipes!

    Step 2

    Take the mixing bowl of your food processor. Add the softened butter, the sugar, and the vanilla pulp and mix it until it has a creamy consistency. This will take about 5 minutes. 

    Once you have a creamy mixture, blend in the egg whites. Last but not least, mix in the flour and cornstarch. 

    Step 3

    Fill the dough into a pastry bag with a star-shaped nozzle. The easiest way to do this is to put the pastry bag in a tall container. This little helper makes pouring the dough into the piping bag much easier because you have both hands free.

    Step 4

    Use the piping bag to pipe the dough in the form of circles onto the baking tray covered with baking paper. Here you can make big circles, but also small ones. As you like it or you can best. 

    I have to admit the squiggles turned out a bit big. When I bake them again, I will try to create smaller circles. Visually, I might like them smaller, better. For taste, it doesn't matter. 

    Step 5

    Bake the butter dough cookies in the oven on the middle rack for about 20 minutes (depending on your oven). You want to bake these cookies pale in color! 

    You want to bake these cookies pale in color! 

    If the cookies are too long and baked dark in the oven, they may taste slightly bitter and become brittle/crumbly. And that would be a shame!

    Once baked, take them out and let them cool.

    Step 6

    Prepare the chocolate. Before you can cover these gorgeous cookies with chocolate, you must first melt the chocolate coating. 

    It's best to use a water bath or a tempering device. 

    Water bath: If you use a water bath for melting, you need two pots of different sizes. Fill one pot 3-4 finger-widths with water and place the second, smaller pot in it. The second pot should not touch the water! Now put the chocolate to be melted into the upper, smaller pot and melt it over moderate heat while stirring over the rising steam.

    Tempering unit: Add the chocolate to be melted to the tempering unit and set it to the appropriate melting temperature. White and milk chocolate: 40 °C // 104 °F, dark chocolate 50 °C // 122 °F.  

    Once the chocolate is ready, dip the butter cookies halfway into the chocolate coating. Let them drip off and place them on a sheet of baking paper to dry.

    Dip cooled butter cookies in melted dark chocolate couverture.

    Dip the butter cookies halfway into the chocolate.

    Bowl with melted chocolate and four chocolate dipped butter cookies on baking paper to dry.

    Place the cookies on a sheet of baking paper to dry.

    Instead of dipping, you can thinly drizzle the melted chocolate couverture over the cookies. 

    Butter cookies drizzled with dark chocolate couverture.

    Drizzled

    Butter cookies dipped half way in dark chocolate couverture.

    Dipped

    Here I like to use small piping bags made of baking paper. These are ideal for melted chocolate and other liquids. 

    Once the chocolate has set, enjoy the finished cookies with tea, coffee, or hot chocolate!

    Ready to eat chocolate dipped butter cookies in cookie jar.

    Line cookie jar with parchment paper.

    Chocolate drizzled and chocolate dipped butter cookies ready to eat.

    Enjoy!

    🍫 Variations

    Instead of dark chocolate, you can also dip the butter cookies in white chocolate or milk chocolate.

    If the chocolate alone is not enough, you can sprinkle the cookies with nuts, sugar pearls, or something like that, as long as the chocolate has not yet solidified on the cookie.

    🍽 Equipment

    • Kitchen machine - By now an absolute fan of the Kitchenaid.
    • Piping bag with a star tip - we are using a Wilton Star Tip 32
    • Mixing bowl
    • Baking tray
    • Baking paper
    • Water bath or tempering device - for the chocolate coating

    🌡 Storage

    Unless you eat them in an instant, these cookies will keep for up to three weeks in an airtight container or well-sealed cookie tin.

    Before filling, line the container with parchment paper and between each layer of cookies. This layer will keep the chocolate butter cookies from sticking to the bottom or each other.

    💭 Top Tip

    To live more sustainably, don't throw away the remaining scraped out vanilla bean, keep using it to make homemade vanilla sugar!

    More gorgeous cookie recipes for you to try:

    • M and M Cookies
    • Egg Yolk Cookies
    • Sour Cream Cookies
    • Cinnamon Cookies {Zimtsterne}
    • Chocolate Chip Cookies with Chestnut Flour
    • Chocolate Espresso Crinkle Cookies
    • Walnut Meringue Cookies
    • Linzer Cookies with Egg Liqueur Ganache
    • Walnut Cookies
    • Coconut Cookies
    • Lacy Oatmeal Cookies (created by reallifeoflulu.com)

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    📖 Recipe

    Chocolate drizzled and chocolate dipped butter cookies ready to eat.

    Chocolate Dipped Butter Cookies

    Nora
    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence. 
    5 from 41 votes
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    Prep Time 20 minutes mins
    Baking Time 20 minutes mins
    Total Time 40 minutes mins
    Course Christmas Cookies, Cookies, Snack, tea biscuits
    Cuisine European
    Servings 24 Cookies
    Calories 171 kcal

    Equipment

    • Kitchen machine
    • Piping bag with a star tip Wilton Star Tip 32
    • Mixing bowl
    • 2 Baking tray
    • Baking Paper
    • Water bath or tempering device

    Ingredients
     
     

    • 7.05 oz Unsalted butter room temperature
    • ½ cup Sugar
    • 1 Vanilla bean
    • 2 Egg white
    • 1¾ cups Cake flour
    • ¾ cup Cornstarch
    • 1¼ cups Dark chocolate couverture

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat the oven to 170 °C // 338 °F.
    • Cover the baking trays with baking paper and set aside a piping bag with a star-shaped tip to have it quickly at hand.
    • Take the mixing bowl of your food processor. Add the softened butter, the sugar, and the vanilla pulp and mix it until it has a creamy consistency. This will take about 5 minutes.
      7.05 oz Unsalted butter, ½ cup Sugar, 1 Vanilla bean
    • Once you have a creamy mixture, blend in the egg whites.
      2 Egg white
    • Mix in the flour and cornstarch.
      1¾ cups Cake flour, ¾ cup Cornstarch
    • Fill the dough into a pastry bag with a star-shaped nozzle.
    • Use the piping bag to pipe the dough in the form of circles onto the baking tray covered with baking paper.
    • Bake the butter cookies in the oven on the middle rack for about 20 minutes (depending on your oven). You want to bake these cookies pale in color!
    • Once baked, take them out and let them cool.
    • Melt the chocolate couverture using a water bath or tempering device.
      1¼ cups Dark chocolate couverture
    • Once the chocolate is ready, dip the butter cookies halfway into the chocolate coating. Let them drip off and place them on a sheet of baking paper to dry.
    • Once the chocolate has set, enjoy the finished cookies with tea, coffee, or hot chocolate!
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    Keyword Butter Cookies, butter cookies with chocolate, chocolate butter cookies, chocolate dipped butter cookies, Christmas Cookies, Tea Biscuits
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    Nutrition values are estimates only, using online calculators. Please verify using your own data.
    Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 171kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 6mg | Potassium: 43mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 209IU | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 0.4mg
    Enjoy creating delicious food all year round! Truffles, eggnog, chocolates, Christmas cookies, cakes, boozy drinks, and divine Austrian delicacies!

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    ⛑️ Food Safety

    • Cook to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
    • Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
    • Wash hands after touching raw meat
    • Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
    • Never leave cooking food unattended
    • Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds
    • Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove
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    1. Giangi Townsend

      December 01, 2022 at 9:22 am

      5 stars
      Mouthwatering. Thank you for the variation suggestions. White and dark chocolate sounds so much fun to make.
      On my list to bake this weekend.

      Reply
      • Nora

        December 03, 2022 at 12:42 am

        Thank you so much, Giangi! I am so glad you like the recipe!

        Reply
    2. Brittany F.

      December 01, 2022 at 12:29 pm

      5 stars
      These butter cookies bring back so many wonderful childhood memories! My grandma always had some in the house. I love this recipe and the chocolate is a bonus layer of deliciousness.

      Reply
      • Nora

        December 03, 2022 at 12:42 am

        Thank you so much, Brittany! These butter cookies have also made my grandma for me, and I'm very happy that I've been able to present this traditional recipe here.

        Reply
    3. Genevieve Jerome

      December 01, 2022 at 12:35 pm

      5 stars
      oh my Nora, your dessert recipes never cease to amaze me! These looks absolutely scrumptious!

      Reply
      • Nora

        December 03, 2022 at 12:40 am

        Thank you so much for your kind words! It makes me really happy that you like my recipes so much!

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    4. Julia

      December 04, 2022 at 4:36 pm

      5 stars
      Yum, these were so soft and buttery, reminded me of my favorite cookies that come in those Christmas tins!

      Reply

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    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence.
    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence.
    The simple butter cookie dough is refined with a vanilla bean and prepared in no time. Once the cookies have cooled, they can be dipped in chocolate and eaten with indulgence.
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