Thank you to Where’s My Backpack for this week’s Sweet challenge!. This challenge is just to my taste. Enjoy!
Fiesta Cookies*
Makes about 36 medium size cookies.
Soft, piped cookies lightly flavored with chocolate and spices, decorated with icing and nonpareils.
1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 t. ground cinnamon
1/4 t. ground nutmeg
1/8 t. salt
1/2 c. unsalted butter
3/4 c. + 2 T. confectioner’s sugar
1 lg. egg
1 t. almond or vanilla extract
1 1/2 oz. unsweetened chocolate, melted
Icing of your choice
Nonpareils
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Whisk together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat together butter and confectioner’s sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and extract. On lowest mixer speed, beat in dry ingredients and then chocolate.
- Using a heavy duty pastry bag fitted with a star tip, pipe cookie dough onto baking sheets, spacing cookies 1 1/2” apart. Cookies will not rise, spread or change shape while they bake.
- Bake for about 5 to 7 minutes or until set. Place baking sheets on wire racks and allow cookies to cool before decorating.
- Once cookies have cooled, decorate with icing and nonpareils.
Suggested shapes for piping: thick bars, stars, hearts, and wreaths.
* Recipe from my cookbook, Confectionately Yours: A Collection of Cookies, Candies & Yummy Confections.
A Taste of Morning 
These look like press cookies. Our oven died a couple of years ago… we keep going on trips rather than getting it replaced. On the other hand, we can go to a neighbors those couple of times per year that we bake cookies, make a double batch and leave a plate full as payment for the use of the oven.
Oscar
Sorry to hear about your oven, but it sounds like you – and your neighbors – are managing just fine with the arrangement. For the B&B, of course, I’d be lost without an oven!
Looks delicious !