Best Ever Chocolate Cutout Cookies

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Description

This recipe is my grandmother’s. this will be the best chocolate cutout cookie you have ever tasted! Very chocolaty with a lot of taste! Everyone asks for the recipe when I bake these! The kids love them so its time to share!! ENJOY!

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup butter, softened
  • 1 ¼ cups white sugar
  • 1 egg

Instructions

  1. Sift together the flour
  2. cocoa
  3. baking powder and salt; set aside.
  4. In a medium bowl
  5. cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg. Gradually stir in the sifted ingredients to form a soft dough. Divide dough into 2 pieces
  6. flatten and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
  7. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  8. On a lightly floured surface
  9. roll the dough out to 1/8 inch in thickness. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Dough will be sticky so be sure to add more flour to the rolling surface as needed. Place cookies 1 1/2 inches apart onto cookie sheets.
  10. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Servings: 36

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