Chocolate Cutout Cookies: Wookie Cookies

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/2 cup Cocoa powder
  • 2 1/4 cup Flour
  • 3/4 cup Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

• Dairy

  • 1 cup Butter

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Ingredients

• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• 2¼ cup flour

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees and grease your baking sheets.
• In a mixing bowl, cream butter, sugar, baking powder and vanilla until fluffy and pale. Add egg and mix well.
• In a small bowl whisk together flour and cocoa powder. Add to creamed mixture slowly, until a dough forms.
• Divide dough into 2 halves, taking one half, sprinkle a counter or cutting board with additional cocoa powder to avoid sticking. Roll out your dough to ⅛th inch thickness and cut with gingerbread men cookie cutters. Using the tines of a fork, press all over the cookies to look like Wookie Fur
• Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes or until it starts to smell like chocolate.
• Cool on wire racks.
• When cool, use chocolate icing or black icing purchased at the super market to pipe the strap from Chewbaccas satchel across the chest of the cookies. Decorate with sugar pearls to complete the buckles.