Portions:
15-20
Ingredients
- 2 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cup fine maple sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/1/4 teaspoon salt
- Maple butter (for garnish)
Method
- In a bowl, use an electric mixer to beat maple sugar with butter. Add egg yolk and vanilla, and mix well.
- In another bowl, sift flour with cocoa and salt. Gently combine with the butter and maple sugar mixture.
- Form the dough into a disk using your hands and wrap in plastic. Leave to chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
- Place rack in the middle of oven and preheat to 325 °F.
- Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- On a floured work surface, roll out the dough to a 1/4 in thickness. Using cookie cutters of your choice, cut out approximately 20 cookies, making sure to use up the leftover the dough.
- Bake in oven for about 15 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.
- (At this stage, the undecorated cookies will keep for a week if you wish to get a head start.)
- Fit a pastry bag with small plain tip and fill it with maple butter. Decorate cookies with joyful designs.
