Name: Chocolate sugar cookies recipe by Sreemoyee Bhattacharjee at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: Flour - 1.5 cups; Sugar - 3/4th cup; Cocoa powder - 1/2 cup; Salt - 1/2 tsp; Butter - 1/2 cup; Baking powder - 1/2 tsp; Eggs - 1; Vanilla extract - 1 tsp; Royal icing :; Egg whites - 1; Icing sugar - 1.5 cups; Lemon juice - 1 tsp; Yellow food colour

Ingredients Serving: 4

Flour - 1.5 cups
Sugar - 3/4th cup
Cocoa powder - 1/2 cup
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Butter - 1/2 cup
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Eggs - 1
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Royal icing :
Egg whites - 1
Icing sugar - 1.5 cups
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Yellow food colour

Instructions

The butter should be at room temperature. Whisk this with the sugar.
Add the egg into the above and whisk. meanwhile, sieve the flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa aside.
Now add the mixture into the egg mixture and form a dough.
Chill this and cut into circles using a cookie cutter. Bake them at 175 degree centigrade for 10 minutes in a preheated oven. Cool them.
Whisk the egg white and mix the icing sugar to form a paste.
Now pour this into an icing bag and line the cooled cookies to form a border
Now mix the yellow colour, lemon juice into the remaining icing and fill in the cookie top.
If the icing becomes thick, add little water to make it thin. Leave the cookies so that the icing sets.

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