Theses delicious chocolate dipped Italian butter cookies are so chocolatey and rich!
Ingredients
225g butter, softened
100g sugar
47g icing sugar
2 eggs+1 egg yolk
1½ tsp vanilla
350g flour
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder
300g semi-sweet chocolate
½ can condensed milk
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment or non-stick mats.
Add butter and sugars to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and beat until smooth, creamy and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Add the egg and vanilla and beat until combined.
In a mixing bowl, whisk the flour, salt, and baking powder together and add to the butter mixture. Mix together until just combined.
Scoop dough into a large piping bag fitted with a large star tip.
Pipe strips of dough out onto prepared sheets. To make them as pictured, tilt the tip down while piping it out and slowly bring it to a 45 degree angle as you pipe,so that the tip of the cookie is slightly curled under.
Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes or until the edges just look golden.
Cool on a wire rack.
Melt the chocolate with a teaspoon of butter. Take half of the melted chocolate, while still hot and add the condensed milk slowly. It will be really thick, add condensed milk until the texture of buttercream.
Spread the chocolate on to the cookies and sandwich them.
Dip the cookies in the other half of the melted chocolate and chill until firm.