Light, crisp butter cookies dunked in dark chocolate, these butter cookies are the sweet indulgence you’ve been looking for!
First off, I just want to say again how excited I am to be an ambassador for Gay Lea Foods Co-op, especially today, because they’re giving back to all of you amazing readers this month with a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer Giveaway! Please be sure to enter at the bottom of this post, and good luck!!
I’ve been craving some dark chocolate lately, and with Valentines Day just days away, I figured it was finally time to treat myself to some. I’ve always been a lover of butter cookies, I grew up with the blue tin a frequent visitor, especially around a holiday. I loved how the cookies were similar, but each had their own personality (named plain, sugar, coconut, and raisin). I wanted to do the same for my butter cookies, with a bit of a twist.
In this house, we’re raining sprinkles and toasted almonds; something for the kids, and something for us.
The key is using a good salted butter, and I love Gay Lea’s butter, it has just the right amount of salt for me (some brands have WAY too much, and some you can’t tell at all).
These are some of the easiest “pretty” cookies that you can make. We all know those beautiful iced and decorated cookies. The ones that are rolled, then cut, then cooled, then iced, then left for an eternity to dry. Not so with these butter cookies.
All you have to do with these is put the dough into a piping bag fitting with a big star tip, then pipe them out into whatever shape you like. I photographed the circles, but the girls and I also made S’s, straight lines, triangles, and a few hearts, whatever they wanted them to be.
Icing is as simple as melting some chocolate in the microwave (there’s no need for a double broiler, I promise), and dipping half the cookies into that, and then into your topping of choice. Toasted hazelnuts are a nice option, so is toasted coconut, but I was hankering for almonds, and we have more sprinkles in this house than Baskin Robins because the kids like them on EVERYTHING.
Spoil yourself, indulge in something that makes you happy, and tastes delicious! Happy Valentines Day – and don’t forget to enter to win that amazing Kitchen Aid Mixer from Gay Lea below the recipe!
Gay Lea
KitchenAid Mixer Giveaway – February 2017
Chocolate Dipped Butter Cookies and a Giveaway!
Ingredients
- 1 cup Salted Butter, softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/3 cup icing sugar
- 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 6 oz dark chocolate, melted
- 1/2 cup toasted almond sliced, chopped fine
- 1/4 cup sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350ºF, with a rack in the middle position. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper or non-stick mats.
- Put the butter and sugars in the bowl of your stand mixer and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add the eggs and vanilla, and beat again until fluffy, another 3 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and mix on low until just combined.
- Scrape the dough into a large piping bag fitted with a large star tip. Pipe the dough onto the baking sheet in whatever shapes you would like (circles, lines, S's, etc)
- Bake for 10 - 12 minutes, until the edges are just starting to turn golden.
- Let the cookies cool on a wire rack.
- Dip one half of the cooled cookies into the melted chocolate (let any excess chocolate drip off). Then dip into your toppings (toasted nuts, sprinkles, toasted coconut, etc). Let the chocolate harden completely before storing in an air tight container.
AnnaMaria Ierullo
Looks delish! Can’t wait to try❤
mary williams
Would love to try all of these cookies, if I won the mixer, I would. GayLea butter is the best!
Gwen
Wow! Great recipe
Treen Goodwin
Yummy … they look and sound delish . Thanks for sharing the recipe … a must try 🙂
Donna Jarrett
These will be great for Family Day dinner treats!
Carlie
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Tracey Muma
Those look yummy…really could use a new mixer, love baking and mine is on it last mix 🙂
Chrisanna Doyle
These look delicious! I love the look the piping tip gives!
Linda Klages
look very nice – I am surprised that it was salted butter that the recipe uses………
Will
Thank you!
Alayne Langford
With smooth and creamy Gaylea butter, you just can’t go wrong! Thank you for a fantastic giveaway! 🙂
Juliette
Mmm…these cookies look delicious! I will have to try this recipe! thank you for the giveaway, I so need to win one of these!
Doug Klein
Fabulous looking stuff
Isabel Topps
thanks for the giveaway!
Jodi Simpson
Oh my gosh! You make everything look so yummy! Great work!
Vicki Ho
not partial to sprinkles myself, but I like the toasted almonds, and think toasted coconut would be great.
Estella
This is an arclite that makes you think “never thought of that!”
Tiffany Janzen
Mmmm looks tasty!
Susan Hanley
What gorgeous looking cookies. I never thought of using a piping tip to get an unusual shape.
September Dee
These cookies look delicious and easy to make. Will give it a try!
Vivian Dionne
These look like great cookies to make!
Berenice Herrfort
Love your cookie recipes
Lynda
I don t own a stand up mixer , this one is nice
Joyce s
Those cookies look delish! Could use a new mixer to create these!
Glenna Hibberd
Yummy sounding, must try.
valerie caldicott
I would love to make hose chocolate dipped shortbread cookies
Justin
Looks awesome!!
Cathy
These recipes look delicious!
Cathy
BTW, have you considered making a lactose-free butter? Just curious.
Janice Cournoyer
I am definitely trying this recipe Looks so yummy!!
Carly
Apopacietirn for this information is over 9000-thank you!
Peggy
Love butter cookies and with chocolate, just can’t be beat!
Kerry
I like Gay Lea’s salted butter too!
Rose Hately
These look delicious. Butter is always better!
cs
Great giveaway!
Tammy Cox
Awesome giveaway Thanks for the chance.
Niki
Great giveaway, for an awesome product!
Kim Baghaii
Awesome love this
Lesa
That’s a posting full of intishg!
l p
thanks for the recipe and the picture. they will be the next project here.
Kl P
Can’t wait to try them out. I know we’re going to love them. Thank you.
Joan
Very attractive cookie, looks like fun to do with the kids.
Gail
I need to win this I really need a stand mixer thanks for the chance
Terri C
Crossing my fingers for this one! Thanks for the chance!
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Wendy Aird
Great Blog!!
Jodi
It’s about time soenmoe wrote about this.
Tina F
Oh my did never think to make a shape cookie like this dipped in chocolate and then nuts. Very cool I may even melt white chocolate and put in food coloring and try different colors on the cookieslike red
Tammi L.
Oh that looks good… especially with the almonds. I usually roll and ice with royal but my husband HATES the hard icing – I bet he’d love this! Thank you!
Serajum Monira
Looks absolutely delicious. Definitely trying it out next week
cookie3
Hard to stay on a diet when you post gorgeous pictures like that, lol. To heck with the diet -now I’m baking instead.
Carol Bible
Looks delicious!!!
Carol Bible
Looks delicious!!
Lisette
looks great yumm luv
Kim Buckley
Wouldn’t they be a hit at a party? 🙂
Anna Gulka
CHOCOLATE DIPPED BUTTER COOKIES looks good and easy! AND I’m very excited to try
your Crème Brulée French Toast for a “companies coming” breakfast idea!!
thanks for your posts!!
Jennifer Capin
Oh my, looks so yummy!!