Main Street Bakery's Gourmet Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies

This is a delicious, wonderful cookie recipe. In all honesty delicious is an understatement, the dough was good enough that it tasted like ice cream. Definitely a must have for any chocolate lover!

1 cup Butter

1 tablespoon Brown sugar

1 cup Sugar

2 large Eggs

1/4 teaspoon Vanilla

1/4 cup Cocoa powder

1 1/2 cups Flour

1/4 teaspoon Baking soda

1/4 teaspoon Salt

18 oz. Semisweet chocolate chunks (I used chips instead of chunks)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine butter, sugars, vanilla, and cocoa powder together and cream them. Then, add remaining ingredients and mix well. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Spoon onto a greased cookie sheet and bake for 5-8 minutes (if bigger cookies, cook up to 10 minutes).

Cream everything together

Add chocolate chips/chunks

Final baked product

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Decorative Frosting

I don't know about all of you, but this time of year is really hard for me and my kids: it's always raining, cold, and generally unpleasant outside, which makes for a boring and restless household. One of the things we always do to try and break up the monotony is bake and decorate cookies. It's so easy to use, and dries quickly enough that those little fingers won't have time to smudge their designs!

What you'll need:

3 tablespoons of Meringue Powder (which can be skipped, but for flavors sake please don't!)

4 cups of confectioners sugar (which is about a pound)

6 tablespoons of warm water.

Recipe taken from Wiltons

Makes about 3 cups of frosting

This has got to be one of the easiest frostings to make - all you need to do is combine all the ingredients and then mix! I always add a bit of food coloring to give the kids more creative space!

A few words of advice:

If using a hand mixer maybe use a little bit of extra water. The first time I made this at home (and followed the recipe exactly) I actually broke off one of my beaters. This stuff is strong, and not to be pushed against a hand held machine!

If you decide to spread this frosting on the cookie, make sure that whatever utensil you choose to use is free of grease! It does make a huge difference for the frosting, so wipe everything down before using it!

Also, if you're wanting to use a bag to pipe the frosting on, and want really stiff edges simply put in one tablespoon less of water.

Enjoy and make the cookies as bright as can be to rid your house of the mid winter blues!

Character Shaped Chocolate Dipped Sugar Cookies

Looking for something fun and tasty to bake with the kids? Hopefully here is your answer with some fun - and yummy - sugar cookies that have been dipped in chocolate, and shaped to look like popular Disney characters. All you will need to start is:


Cookie Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. Vanilla
2 tsp. Baking Powder
3 cup All-Purpose Flour
Cookie cutters of choice


Chocolate Dip Ingredients:
1 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp milk


Begin by making the chocolate dipping sauce. Combine all ingredients into a small sauce pan, and slowly melt and stir ingredients together. Then, set aside and begin making cookies.

Ingredients before melting

After melting

Now, start on the cookies by creaming the butter and sugar together. Then, add in the egg and vanilla.

Creamed butter and sugar

Sift the flour and baking powder together, and then add to the creamed mixture. It is recommended to mix everything together by hand; however, I used my  mixer and it turned out just fine. Also, this is one of the few sugar cookie dough's that do not need to be chilled prior to rolling out.

Dough consistency

It is now time to turn the kids loose on the dough! Roll it out on a floured surface (my dough was about 1/8 inch thick) and cut in the desired shapes. I chose to do Mickey, Chuggington, and Lightning McQueen!

Cookie Cutters

Little dough for the kids

Chuggington!

Once all of the dough has been cut, I like to put mine on a pan lined with parchment paper instead of grease (just makes dessert a little bit healthier). Bake your cookies for 6-8 minutes at 400 degrees.

Mickey and Chuggington

Mickey and Lightning McQueen

After the cookies have been baked and cooled, dip each one (or if you're worried about the kids making a mess, use a spoon) in chocolate. Make sure to place each cookie that has been dipped in chocolate onto parchment paper until the chocolate hardens (this usually takes approximately 10 minutes, but can go faster by putting the cookies in the freezer).

Yummy Mickey

McQueen and chocolate