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.