Servings 16 cookies
Ingredients
Cookie
- 113 g (1/2 cup) of unsalted room-temperature butter
- 85 g (1/2 cup) of white granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon (20g) of unsweetened apple sauce
- 180 g (1 1/2 cup) of all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
- 25 g (1/4 cup) of cacao powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of dawa dawa/fermented locust beans powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
Frosting
- 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips vegan friendly
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugar together
- Add the apple sauce and mix well
- Add the rest of the dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, cornstarch, cocoa powder, dawa dawa, cloves, and salt)
- Mix with a spoon then combine with your hands to get a round and smooth dough.
- Preheat the oven to 340°F
- Roll the dough between parchment paper until the dough is about 1/2 a centimetre thick.
- Cut out your desired shape.
- Bake the cookies in the oven for 12 minutes.
- Once fully baked, transfer to a cooling rack and allow the cookies to cool completely
- As the cookies are cooling, put the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe
- Microwave the chocolate chips at 30-second then 15-second intervals, stirring between microwave sessions until melted.
- Pour the melted chocolate into a zip lock or pipping bag, snip off a tiny portion then frost the cookies with what ever design you want
- Allow the cookies to sit for up to an hour to let the chocolate fully set.