Light and crumbly with a nice flavour of valrhona cocoa powder and they literally melt in your mouth.
Author Ann Low
Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 15 minutesmins
Total Time 30 minutesmins
Course Snack
Difficulty Easy
Servings 75pieces
Ingredients
160gbutter - soft to touch
80gicing sugar - sifted
1medium size egg - about 60g with shell
200gcake flour or plain flour - sifted
1tspvanilla extract
1tbspValrhona or Hershey's cocoa powder, - sifted
Instructions
Whisk butter and icing sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy.
Lower speed add vanilla extract and slowly add in beaten egg till well mixed followed by flour, tablespoon by tablespoon.
Stop machine and use rubber spatula to fold well mixture. Divide mixture into two portions and add cocoa powder into one mixture, fold well.
Prepare a piping bag fitted with star tip, transfer cocoa batter on one side of the piping bag and plain batter on the other side.
Pipe each cookie on the baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven 180 deg C for about 15 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on wire rack before storing in an airtight container.