Description
These Fun and Festive Chocolate Orange Rudolph Cookies are super cute and super yum. I think these cookies will be Santa’s favourites.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookie Recipe
- 100g butter
- 1/4 cup cacao
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- zest of orange
- 1 tbsp fresh orange juice
- 1 egg
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Buttercream Icing
- 100g butter
- 1 1/4 cup icing sugar
- 1/4 cup cacao
- few drops vanilla
- 1 tsp milk
Instructions
Cookies
- Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl
- Add the cacao, orange zest and orange juice and mix again until well combined
- Add the egg and mix thoroughly before adding in the flour and baking powder and stirring together to make a dough
- Bring the dough together into a ball then turn out and wrap the dough in glad wrap and chill in the fridge for around 20 minutes
- When the dough has chilled roll the dough out and using a round cookie cutter, cut the cookies from the dough
- Bake the cookies in batches for around 8 minutes
- When baked through place the cookies on a wire rack to cool completely.
Icing and decorating:
- Once the cookies have cooled make the icing.
- With an electric mixer beat together the butter, icing sugar, cacao, vanilla and milk. The buttercream should be firm but spreadable.
- Decorate each cookie by smearing with a portion of icing and topping with the pretzel antlers, candy eyes, chocolate chip mouth and raspberry nose.
Notes
- Zesting the orange directly into the bowl will allow more of the flavour into your cookies.
- You can store the undecorated, baked cookies in the freezer for 2-3 months and then defrost at room temperature before decorating.
- These do not have a great shelf life after decorating so they are best eaten the day they are made.