Shadowhunters Rune Cookies
A delicious chocolate cookie recipe topped with decorative royal icing to look just like the Runes from Shadowhunters!
Yields 4 dozen
Things you'll need
Ingredients- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- ½ cup dark cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- Large mixing bowl
- Hand mixer
- Rubber spatula
- Offset spatula
- Rolling pin
- 3-inch circle cookie cutter
- Baking sheet lined with parchment paper
- Royal icing in a decorating bag fitted with a #2 tip
- Knife
- Runes template
Let's get started!
- Preheat oven to 325ºF.
- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, mixing in between each one. Mix in vanilla and almond extracts. Add flour and mix until a dough forms.
- Shape dough into 2 discs about 1 inch thick and wrap them in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 to 24 hours.
- Roll out dough to ¼ inch thick. Cut out cookies and place them on a lined cookie sheet about 1 inch apart. Bake for 16 minutes.
- Allow cookies to cool and then transfer them to a wire rack.
Time to decorate!
- Outline cookies with black royal icing and then fill in the center. Allow to dry for about an hour.
- Print the rune template and then tape a piece of wax paper over it. Carefully pipe over the design (PICTURE at 4:47).
- Gently remove the runes from wax paper with a knife and then transfer them onto the cookies.
- TaDa! Shadowhunters Runes Cookies are just the treat you need to fight the demonic Incursion!
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