Chocolate Striped Cookies
Whether it’s winter, spring, summer, or fall, kids love cookies! No matter the time of year, these Chocolate Striped Cookies are sure to be a hit! The kids (and even adults!) in your life will love them!
In winter, you may want to enjoy some yummy cookies straight from the oven on a cold day.
Are you reading this during spring or summer? If so, you may have extra time to enjoy baking with your children or grandchildren while school isn’t in session.
Is it fall? If so, you might want to bake some cookies as a way of celebrating getting back to school. Or bake them as a last hoorah before getting back into a school routine.
To be honest, though, it’s really not necessary to have a good reason to eat cookies. It’s just something you should do. 😉
These Chocolate Striped Cookies look beautiful and impressive even though they’re really not that hard to make. So give them a try!
Also, be sure to look below this printable recipe for more recipes you might like to make! If you have young children (or grandkids), one of the recipes goes along with a super cute book. Read the book, eat cookies, and play the counting/matching game that goes along with it. (You’ll find the link to the printable game in the article.)
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Description
These yummy Chocolate Striped Cookies are not as hard to make as you might think! They look impressive and taste delicious. Make a batch with your kids or grandkids and enjoy them together!
Ingredients
1/3 cup unsalted butter
1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 teaspoon prepared coffee, strong
2 eggs
¾ cup brown sugar
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons almond extract
1 1/3 cups chopped almonds
5 ounces white chocolate (for stripes)
5 ounces dark chocolate (for stripes)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt 8 ounces of the semi-sweet chocolate in a saucepan with coffee and unsalted butter using the double-boiler method (pan on top of a pan with boiling water).
Beat eggs in a bowl and then whisk in the sugar.
Stir in melted chocolate until mixture is smooth.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Then stir it into the chocolate mixture.
Stir in the extract and almonds, and then mix in the remaining semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Form into tablespoon-size balls of dough and place on cookie sheet.
Makes 24 balls.
Bake for 16 minutes and then transfer right away to a wire. Decorate with white chocolate and dark chocolate after melting chocolate and putting it in piping bags to draw stripes across the cookies.
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You may want to make these Triple Chocolate Chunk Honey Pecan Cookies. Not only are they delicious, but they go along with the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Make the cookies and read the book! You’ll also find a counting/matching game to go along with it.
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