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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> UK >> Scottish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Adjust two racks to divide oven into thirds, preheat to 300 degrees. | 2. You can prepare this dough in a mixer or food processor (or by hand). | 3. Food Processor Method, using steel blade:. | 4. Place dry ingredients in processor bowl. | 5. Cut cold butter into 1/2 slices and drop into bowl. | 6. Add the vanilla. | 7. Cover and pulse just until all ingredients hold together. | 8. Electric Mixer Method (take butter out of fridge 20-30 minutes before mixing):. | 9. Cream butter in large mixer bowl. | 10. Add salt, sugar and vanilla and mix. | 11. Using low speed, add cocoa and flour. | 12. Make sure to scrape down the sides and beat only until the dough holds together. | 13. Turn out dough onto floured surface. Knead it briefly, if necessary, until it's very smooth. Roll it into a ball and flatten it a bit. | 14. Roll to an even 1/2" thickness. Use a 1 1/2" round or square floured cookie cutter for a yield of 35-40 cookies. Reroll scraps of dough, if any, and cut more cookies. | 15. Place cut cookes 1" apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Prick each cookie in three rows (I line the rows up evenly)with a dinner fork. Fork should go all the way through to the cookie sheet for each row. Pop the sheet in the fridge for a few minutes if your fork sticks too much or if the cookies are losing shape when you prick them. | 16. Bake 25-30 minutes or until firm to touch, rotating baking sheets top to bottom and front to back once. Be careful - since they're so dark in color it is easy for them to burn without much notice. | 17. If you use only one sheet, place on higher rack and reduce baking time. | 18. Place on rack to cool. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
purpose flour	2	cups	sifted	-	-	-	-
cocoa powder	1/2	cup	sifted unsweetened	98.04	24.897	8.427999999999999	5.891
confectioner ' sugar	1	cup		-	-	-	-
salt	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	1/2		unsalted	42.75	1.9642	1.3358	3.6
vanilla extract	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.