Tinfoil Chef

Here’s another long time Christmas cookie favorite: Chocolate Marzipan Sugar Cookies

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. While it’s warming up get started with the dough by combining 3/4 cup of sugar, a half cup of brown sugar and a 7 oz package marzipan that’s been cut into chunks in a food processor. Process them until they have a consistency like fine sand.

Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Add a stick and a half of softened butter, a couple teaspoons of vanilla, one and a half teaspoon of baking powder, a half teaspoon of baking

soda, a half teaspoon of salt and a large egg. Use an electric mixer to beat until the mixture is smooth.

Add two cups of all purpose flour and a half cup of unsweetened cocoa and mix until everything’s incorporated. When you’re finished the dough will be very stiff.

Drop 1-tablespoon balls of the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, leaving a couple inches around the sides. Bake on the oven’s lower rack until the cookies are flat and have a cracked looking surface (about 10 minutes).

The cookies will be very soft. Let them cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a rack to cool. If desired, dust cookies with powdered sugar.

This recipe should make about three dozen cookies.

3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 7-ounce package marzipan
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) softened butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
Powdered sugar, for dusting

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