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These Christmas tree chocolate dipped cookies are sweet, festive and great for the holidays.
It is December 9 already and we only have 14 days until Christmas! These cookies have been way overdue to be posted on my blog!
Did I ever tell you that Christmas is my favorite holiday? I probably did, but getting closer to it, makes me even more-excited and happier! And one of the things I love to do around Christmas is making shortbread cookies.
Since we enjoy chocolate so much in my house, these chocolate dipped, Christmas tree shaped cookies have been very popular at home lately. I’m not gonna lie, I eat butter cookies all year round, not only on Christmas.
They remind me of when I was a child and my sister and I used to make, bake, decorate and eat these. I was almost gonna forgot to mention, that I was in charge of decorating the cookies. We used to make 2-3 batches at a time and sometimes give them away to friends and neighbors.
These is nothing difficult about these Christmas Tree Chocolate Dipped Cookies. You make your cookie dough, chill it (highly recommended, I always do!), roll it out, cut Christmas tree shaped cookies and chill again. Then bake your cookies and let them cool. In the mean time prepare a chocolate ganache. Glue cookies together with ganache, then dip a part of them into it. Add some sprinkles on top.
You might ask why chill the dough twice? I know some butter cookie recipes do not call for chilling the dough, but I’ve tested this one quite a few times and in order for these cookies to retain their shape dough needs to be chilled prior to rolling and again prior to baking. Unrolled dough could be kept in a zip lock bag in the fridge for 2 days or frozen for up to 3 months.
Chocolate ganache stays a little soft, if you leave cookies at room temperature and harden if you refrigerate them.
These Christmas Tree Chocolate Dipped Cookies are easy to make ahead and bring to a holiday party or just enjoy at home.
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Christmas Tree Chocolate Dipped Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies:
- 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups + 1 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp cornstarch
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
Chocolate ganache:
- 6 oz semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 tsp peppermint extract, (optional)
- Sprinkles to decorate
Instructions
- Cookies:
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add egg and beat on medium speed until incorporated. Add in vanilla.
- In a bowl combine flour, cornstarch and baking soda, then add to the sugar-butter mixture. Mix until incorporated.
- Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight.
- Roll out dough about 1/4 inch thick. Cut out Christmas tree shaped cookies using a cookie cutter.
- Chill cookies for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 F (177 C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Bake cookies for 10-13 minutes until they start to turn golden. Be careful not to over bake.
- Transfer cookies to a cooling rack and let them cool completely.
Chocolate ganache:
- Bring heavy cream to just a boil and remove from heat. Place chocolate chips in a medium bowl. Pour cream over chocolate chips, stirring to combine (might take a few minutes). Add in peppermint extract (if you decide to use it). Set ganache a side to set, stirring every so often.
To assemble the the cookies:
- Once cookies have cooled to room temperature, fill them with the ganache , you can use a piping bag or spatula. Then dip them in an angle into the ganache. Top with sprinkles.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These are gorgeous, Mira! I love the ganache. And sprinkles! No wonder these are a winner!
Thanks Mir!
Christmas trees are the perfect shape and size cookie to eat, (especially when you’re planning on eating 10 of them) But I love the concept of dipping half the cookie in the ganache. If it was on the whole cookie, the cookie would be too dark and less pretty. Ok, I must be crazy! But these cookies do look marvelous, you chose the perfect festive sprinkle on top, I’m heading out today to get some of those! Only 14 days to Christmas, well, at least my husband and I finally found one of those Frozen Elsa singing dolls….
Glad you like these! These Elsa dolls sound like fun!
This is my hubby’s favorite cookie!! And yours are decorated so adorably! Love them, Mira!!
Glad you like them Annie!
Aww these are adorable!! So festive. And good to know about chilling the dough. I probably would have tried to cut corners and ended up with a cookie mess!
Ohhhh this would be just the cookie to leave out for Santa! Shortbread is my favorite cookie in the wide world, and to cut them into little Christmas trees makes shortbread even better! When you said only 14 days until Christmas, my jaw dropped… and I quickly looked at my calendar… now only 13! YIKES!
I’m sire Santa will be happy to eat these 🙂 I can’t believe how close to Christmas we are 🙂
Beautiful cookies Mira! Even though I know that I only have 13 days left to get my shopping done, seeing it in print just put me in a panic, I’m so behind!!!
Thanks Linda! No worries, I’m so behind, too 🙂
MIRA! WHAT! Where is my box of these?! Still in the mail I presume? That dern postal service.. snail mail to the max. These are like my dream cookies. I hope you know that.. and are thinking about how guilty you would feel if there were not a box on their way to my front door at this very second….
Hey Cheryl, I have to send some to TN right now, before I get in trouble 🙂 I’m sure you’ll like them 🙂
These are THE cutest! And I honestly can’t believe it’s almost here! What happened?! I have way too many “Christmas-themed” dishes to post still haha
Thanks you! Yeah, it is unbelievable how close to Christmas we are, and I also won’t be able to post everything I had planned … Have a lovely day!
Love these, Mira! They’re adorable! Does the ganache get hard or does it stay a little soft?
Hey Tara, thanks a lot! Ganache stays a little sort at room temperature. If you put them in the fridge, it will harden 🙂
So cute and they would make lovely gifts.