Duo Cookies

Chocolate and Peanuts duo cookies (For 36 cookies - 18 Peanuts/ 18 Chocolate)

For Chocolate Cookies

300g pastry flour

2g salt

15g cocoa powder

100g chocolate chips

120g icing sugar

125g salted butter

15ml vanilla essence

50ml milk

For Peanut Cookies

300g pastry flour

2g salt

5g green food coloring

100g crushed peanuts (grilled and unsalted)

120g icing sugar

125g salted butter

15ml almond or peanuts essence

35ml milk

Note: Use your favorite cookie cutter for the decoration part

Procedure

Step 1 (Chocolate cookies): In your mixing bowl, add your flour, icing sugar, salt and cocoa powder and mix well together. Once uniformly mixed, add butter.

Step 2: Once the butter is fully combined, add chocolate chips, vanilla and milk then knead well until you obtain a non sticky and firm dough. Wrap the latter in cling film and allow to chill for 20-30 minutes.

Step 3 (Peanuts cookies): In your mixing bowl, add your flour, icing sugar and salt and mix well together. Once uniformly mixed, add butter.

Step 4: Once the butter is fully combined, add crushed peanuts, almond or peanut essence, food coloring and milk then knead well until you obtain a non sticky and firm dough. Wrap the latter in cling film and allow to chill for 20-30 minutes.

Step 5: Using a rolling pin, flatten your cookie dough (thickness ~5mm) and cut out shapes using your favorite cookie cutter/s

Step 6: Keep a portion of your cookie dough from each flavor (chocolate/peanuts) and using a smaller cookie cutter or plunger, cut out shapes. Stick (using a small amount of water) shapes made with peanut cookie dough on the chocolate cookies and shapes made with the chocolate cookie dough on the peanut cookies !

Step 7: Your duo cookies are ready for baking into preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes

Step 8: Out of oven ! Allow your cookies to cool on a wire rack

Step 9: Time for packaging! Get out your favorite tissue/crepe paper, cellophane paper, sticky tape and ribbons.

Step 10: Cut out long rectangular shapes from your paper using different colors. Preferentially ones of similar colors with your cookies .

Step 11: Roll the papers and cut the top as in the picture below. Eventually wrap 6 cookies in cellophane paper while leaving the top part open.

Step 12: Place your paper on top of your cookies in the cellophane bag and tie the cellophane/color paper together.

Step 13: Voila !

You may also try with other colors and flavors ..

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