More Cookies: Chocolate Cut Outs

So awesome news..... My house sold! After it was on the market for about 3 days it sold! My mother is elated about that. Maybe now she won't be sooooo stressed out anymore. Maybe now she will not be so obsessive about keeping every little thing perfect in my house. I mean she was already a clean freak/organizational freak like me, but it just got crazy the past few days when people were touring our house. ACK!

Anyways.... Onto the recipe!

I am posting this a week after I have them, sorry! But these are some pretttyy good cookies. They are a snap to make and are a nice change from your average cut out plain sugar cookies. The bold ingredients are the things I changed this time around. Enjoy!

Chocolate Cut out Cookies

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 dash salt

dash of cinnamon and nutmeg
3/4 cup softened butter
1 tbs shortening
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk

Directions
1. Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt until well blended .
2. cream butter and sugar until smooth in a separate bowl, then beat in the egg and yolk. mix the sifted ingredients into the creamed butter slowly
3. Divide dough and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
4. heat the oven to 375 degrees F and on a lightly floured surface roll out the chilled dough to about 1/6 inch thickness and cut dough into shapes. Be careful its sticky!
5. Bake cookies 8 to 10 then let cool on sheets for a few minutes before removing them to a rack.

Ease of execution: 8/10
Taste: 8/10
Health: 4/10

For the frosting I used a mixture of milk, powdered sugar, and corn syrup again.