Chocolate Bites - Cookies

What about chocolate to dip in the chocolate fondue, you ask? How about little chocolate cookies. Yum yum! I made these for our chocolate fondue night too. They were cute, but a little dry. I think it is because I used Dutch processed cocoa. Maybe I should use regular cocoa next time.

Chocolate Bites cookies

2 Tbsp. butter, softened

1/4 cup brown sugar, packed

1 egg, fork beaten

1 Tbsp. milk

2 Tbsp. cocoa

1/4 tsp. vanilla

1/2 cup flour

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/8 tsp. salt

Cream butter, brown sugar, egg and milk together in medium bowl. Add cocoa. Beat until well mixed. Add vanilla. Stir.

Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix. Drop by 1/2 tsp. onto greased baking sheet. Bake in 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes. The recipe says it makes 72 cookies but I only got 31 out of the recipe!

Ladyfingers

For yesterday's fondue, I also made Ladyfingers. This recipe also came from Company's Coming fondues. It worked out great to spell a message for my daughter.

Ladyfingers
1 egg white, room temperature
4 tsp. sugar

1 egg yolk
4 tsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. vanilla

1/3 cup flour

Beat egg white in small bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add first amount of sugar, while beating, until stiff.

Beat egg yolk, second amount of sugar and vanilla in separate small bowl until light in color. Fold in egg white mixture.

Gradually fold in flour. Spoon into piping bag. Pipe into strips or other shapes onto greased baking sheet. Bake in 350 degree oven for about 12 minutes. Cool. Makes about 54 cookies - or in my case, spelled out "HAPPY 13 BDAY KIMBERLY".

These were light and fluffy and turned out to be a wonderful thing to dip in the chocolate fondue. We all enjoyed them.

Wee Fondue Cookies

I made chocolate fondue for dessert when my daughter had a friend over. It was imperative that I made cookies to go with it. So I made these:

Wee Fondue Cookies (from Company's Coming Fondues)

1/4 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1 large egg

2 Tbsp. milk

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

Cream butter, sugar and egg together in large bowl until smooth.

Add milk and vanilla. Mix.

Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix well. Turn out onto lightly floured surface. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into shapes, using 1 to 1 1/2 inch cookie cutters. Arrange on ungreased baking sheet. Bake in 375 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes until edges start to turn golden.

The original recipe says this makes 4 dozen cookies. I made 8 dozen.

These made nice vanilla sugar cookies! They were great dipped in chocolate! I found that they were a bit sticky to roll out so I rolled them out on wax paper and froze them a while before lifting them from the wax paper and placing them on the cookie sheet. That worked great!