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In a couple of weeks, I'm making an airplane cake and my customer has requested matching airplane cookies. However, she specifically wanted chocolate cookies. Well, I have my terrific sugar cookie recipe, and I've read that you can adapt a sugar cookie recipe to a chocolate sugar cookie recipe, but I wanted to go a step further.
A while back I had read about Brownie Roll-Out Cookies, so I wanted to give that recipe a try! They turned out fantastic! This dough is perfect for rolling out and cutting into shapes... in my case, airplanes.
For some of the cookies, I used the cookie cutter (this plane came from the Wilton set) to cut out marshmallow fondant planes and "glued" them on the cookies with buttercream. The decorations for these are very neat and clean...
But since fondant is not always popular, I also tried my hand at decorating with buttercream. These didn't turn out quite as perfect (visually), but were so delicious with all that buttercream!
In fact, after tasting the cookie withvanilla buttercream, I was inspired to make some sandwich cookies!
Mmmm... so good!
I also read that these are perfect for making homemade ice cream sandwiches, and I have to say, I bet that's true! A tiny scoop of vanilla ice cream pressed between these soft, yet crispy cookies would be heavenly!! These cookies are a little soft and chewy in the middle, but crisp on the outside! The chocolate flavor really stands out, and I just love 'em!
Here's the printable recipe:
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- Author: Rose
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Description
Easy prep brownie roll-out cookies.
Ingredients
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- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup salted butter, softened (2 sticks)
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa (I used Hershey’s)
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder and set aside. In a separate bowl, mix together the softened butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and cocoa. Gradually add dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix until smooth. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least one hour. (I skipped the chilling because my child was reading the recipe and he skipped it… my cookies turned out great, but if your dough is sticky, chilling it will help!)
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350°. Roll out the chilled cookie dough on floured surface and cut into desired shapes. You can brush off any extra deposits of flour. Bake on a parchment-lined cookie sheet for 8 to 11 minutes (the former for ⅛-inch thick cookies, the latter for ¼-inch cookies). I rolled mine to ¼? thickness and 11 minutes was perfect! When done, the edges are firm and the centers are slightly soft and puffed. Cool on a wire rack!
- I decorated with vanilla buttercream and marshmallow fondant!
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: desserts
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About Rose Atwater
Rose Atwater is the founder and cake decorator behind Rose Bakes. She is baker, cake decorator, author, wife to Richy and homeschooling mommy to 6 wonderful kiddos! Her work has been featured in American Cake Decorating Magazine, Cakes Decor, Pretty Witty Cakes Magazine, Huffington Post and Cake Geek Magazine. Learn more here...
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Megan
Mmmmm, I bet making them into ice-cream sandwiches would be awesome. Cute cookies!
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Rose
Yes - I think that would be really yummy!
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Jennifer
Made these today! They were great!
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Rose
So happy to hear it!
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Pauline Molinari
These cookies look INCREDIBLE! Thanks so much for sharing your tasty recipe on the Monday Funday Party!
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Victoria @DazzleWhileFrazzled
I LOVE brownies so these look amazing. Pinning. Visiting from Craft Frenzy Friday party.
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Kimm at Reinvented
Those look amazing. Love buttercream.
Thanks for sharing at Funtastic Friday.Reply
Shirley Wood
I like the idea of making them into ice cream sandwiches. #merrymonday
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Lanae Bond
I would love to try to make these especially in the summer!
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sahana
Looks yummy! Thank you for linking up with us at #HomeMattersParty . We would like to see you again next week.
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Megan
Can you decorate with royal icing too? How long for they stay fresh? Thanks!
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Susan
Hi Megan, thanks for stopping by the blog! Yes, you can definitely decorate these with royal icing. I've done that several times with this recipe. If you keep them in an air tight container, you can have fresh cookies for at least a week....they never last long at my house, so hard for me to say for sure.
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Jan
Can you substitute a box mix brownie for from scratch recipe?
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Rose Atwater
No ma'am.
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