1/4 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Nonpareil candies or similar chocolate drops
Mini bow shaped cake-decorating candies
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees
2. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper
3. Measure the powdered sugar into a small bowl and set aside
4. Combine the softened butter and the 3/4 cup granulated sugar (not the powdered sugar).
5. Beat the butter and sugar in large mixing bowl until light and creamy
6. Beat in eggs and vanilla extract
7. Roll a spoonful of the batter into 1 1/4 ball.
8. Roll the bottom of the ball in the powdered sugar
9. Place on the baking sheet with powdered sugar side down.
10. Bake the cookies until they puff up and the tops crack (8-10 minutes).
11. Set the baking sheets atop cooling racks until cookies have cooled.
12. Heat the chocolate chips in a microwave bowl for one minute with the microwave set at 50 percent power.
13. Stir the chips and heat for another 15 seconds.
14. Stir again and repeat until the chocolate has melted.
15. For each ear, dip the chocolate candy in the melted chocolate and attach to the cookies. (If necessary, use a spoon to make an indentation in the cookie before placing ears. Otherwise, just push the chocolate candy into place).
16. Dip part of the bow-shaped candies and stick it in base of the ears on half the cookies for the Minnie Mouse cookies.
17. Enjoy.
Mark's Notes -
First night I tried to make this, I found our powdered cocoa - it was expired. Trish was out and about with Abby doing some other shopping, and she stopped on her way home to get the powdered cocoa. She gets home. I take the cocoa powder and continue with the recipe. Then I mixed in the powdered sugar with the butter rather than the powdered sugar in step 5. It was late at night, so, I gave up. Cleaned up the kitchen to start again the next day.
Miriam helped me mix everything together both nights. Trish was able to find some bows in the cake decorating aisle.
Mark's Story -
For Spring Break 2015, we went to Orlando. We went to SeaWorld, Universal, Islands of Adventure, Disney, and Downtown Disney. At Downtown Disney, Miriam found Disney's "The Minnie and Friends Cookbook", and she wanted me to get it so we could do some baking together. How could I say no. When we got home, she went through the book and picked out which recipes she wanted me to do first. She wanted to do this recipe first.
Littlefied, C. (2014). The Minnie and Friends Cookbook. New York: Disney Press.
