| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 2 hr 55 min |
| Prep: | 25 min |
| Inactive: | 2 hr |
| Cook: | 30 min |
| Yield: | 36 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 sticks salted butter, slightly softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 whole egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces white almond bark (4 squares)
- 4 ounces chocolate almond bark (4 squares)
- Pistachios, finely chopped
- Chocolate covered candy, such as M and M’s, chopped
- Chocolate covered toffee bars, such as Skor Toffee Bars, chopped
- Chocolate sprinkles
- Other variations: different candy bars, chopped; different varieties of sprinkles; different chopped nuts
Instructions
- For the cookies: Cream the butter with the powdered sugar. Add the egg and vanilla and mix to combine. Add the flour, cocoa powder and salt, and mix together until the dough comes together. Place plastic wrap on the surface of the dough and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with baking mats or parchment.
- Roll out the cookie dough and cut out the cookies using a rectangular cookie cutter, re-rolling the scraps in order to use as much of the dough as possible. Place the cookies onto the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes, in batches if necessary, being careful not to burn. Cookies will remain the same general size and shape after they bake.
- Remove from the oven and place the cookies on a cooling rack. Allow them to cool completely.
- Melt the almond barks in separate bowls in the microwave. Dip half of each cookie into the white almond bark and half into the chocolate bark. Immediately sprinkle or press toppings from the Dipping Bar over both sides of the cookies. Gently set on parchment paper or another nonstick surface and allow to cool before serving.
Reviews
This recipe is a waist of time and ingredients. #1 you MUST flour your surface and rolling pin. The dough is so soft it doesn’t even come off a floured surface very well. Waist of my time!
These turned out delicious! I dipped star cookies in white almond bark and then did some semi-sweet chocolate drizzle on top. I can’t wait for my family to eat these!
I made these cookies for a work carry-in and I had several people ask me for the recipe. Making them again. Confused by these reviews!
I sifted the flour into the mix this will most definitely make a tastier cookie as opposed to over doing it with packed flour. don’t roll them to thin or they will break while dipping , I used different cookie cutter shapes.
over-all they’re a very good
over-all they’re a very good
3/27/2018 OK….here goes my review (lengthy). First of all, did not go as smoothly as it looked on tv! First, I read all the reviews posted. I made many adjustment to the cookie dough, and then they were very good. And, adjustments in Temp. and baking time. VERY EXPENSIVE to make!!! Could not find oblong cookie cutter at Margie’s Cake shop, but found plastic one’s at Michael’s. Pricey assorted sizes (4) $6. I tried to cut the first batch by hand….didn’t work out to well and couldn’t get them off the parchment paper. (Don’t have marble counter top.) Second batch worked out better. Cutter worked good and by lifting up the parchment paper they came off more easily. Baked up beautifully. Transferred to cooling rack. Could not dip in chocolate’s…cookies bent and broke. Removed bowls from pans, and spooned the chocolate on cookies, worked better. Also, spooned toppings on cookies. I had 10 different toppings, since I was taking to Lenten fish fry and bake sale. I wanted a variety (my fault). I bought mostly regular size candy bars and chopped them up. If I would ever make again, I would use chocolate graham crackers! A lot less aggravation. Sorry Ree…..I make many of your recipes, and they have been excellent! THUMBS DOWN ON THIS ONE!! Try her School Day Chicken and Noodles (having tonight), delicious!!!! Still a Pioneer fan, Pam T. Trenton, MI.
The cookies are like a Chocolate Shortbread which I like. The dipping part not so good, after a dozen I just frosted the cookie and sprinkled on the goodies. I will make again but will use a bit more powdered sugar in the dough and frost the cookies not dip.
The reviewers that said the cookies are dry most probably over-measured the flour. This is a BASIC chocolate sable 1-2-3 cookies. 1 part powdered sugar (115 g- 1 cup), 2 parts butter( 230 g- 1 cup), 3 parts flour (345 g) in this case flour +cocoa and an egg or eggyolk. Scooping the flour in measuring cup and leveling will yield a VERY large amount of flour. The proper way to measure is either whisk the flour well and then scoop OR fluff the flour, scoop it with a spoon into the measuring cup, and then level it. This is the main reason many reviewers say cookies or cakes are dry when others say it is moist. Baking should be done with a scale not volume.
We set this up as a Saturday fun project with my little girls, and while we did accomplish what we set out to do- have fun- I will be looking for different recipes. The cookies themselves are pretty bad- they take a lot of effort, and just do not taste nice- I decreased the salt in them to 1/4 tsp, but they still came out salty, super dry and just blech. The good part, though, was the dipping- that was really fun, and we will definitely repeat that with nice tasting cookies. As a few mentioned below, these cookies DO taste nice-ish dipped in chocolate and crunched up nuts/candy. But then, so would most things.
The reason I’m rating this is because of the reviews. I don’t bake unless a recipe gets at least 4 stars but usually 5 stars. I appreciate all the reviews. So 5 ***** to all you out there who review. But I love RD. Beautiful family.
I regret I didn’t heed the reviewers who cautioned that these cookies were dry, but to say these cookies were dry just isn’t enough. They had the consistency of, and tasted like chalk. I’ve been baking for 30+ years and these are by far the worst cookies I’ve ever made. I threw them away as NO ONE in my family would eat them. Unfortunately this is the first Ree Drummond recipe I’ve tried. It is like the last.