Chocolate Dipped Butter Cookies

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. 

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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!

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• 🥘 Ingredients
• 🔪 Instructions
• 🍫 Variations
• 🍽 Equipment
• 🌡 Storage
• 💭 Top Tip
• 📖 Recipe
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• ⛑️ Food Safety
• 💬 Comments

🥘 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.

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🔪 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. 😀

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! 

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. 

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.

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

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!

🍫 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!

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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

See more guidelines at USDA.gov.