So I did just that! I left the rest of the dough to warm to room temperature and rolled it out to a 1/4 inch thickness before cutting into circles and making the button shapes with a glass edge and straw. This made for a much nicer round button shape and it was substantially easier to form the button embellishments. While removing the button holes bits of dough get stuck in the straw. Just snip the straw shorter and shorter as it fills up.
This recipe is not exactly like shop bought Oreos with their crumbly crunch, but they are a very reasonable home made alternative. The chocolate flavour is fantastic and I really like the texture of the cookie. The creamy filling compliments it perfectly. You really do want to sit with a great big glass of ice cold milk while eating these gorgeous dark chocolate cookies.
I was unable, due to time constraints, to have these cookies ready for my daughter’s birthday party. I wanted to have one cookie on each child’s plate as a sort of birthday party starter but I was rushed enough as it was trying to get the cake and doll finished in time in between baking for and blogging about The Shetland Food Fair that it never happened.
Better late than never though and I’m glad I made the biscuits a few days later and finally got the idea out of my head. My family love these cookies and I thought I’d share the recipe with you just in case you might like to include them in a Coraline or even a sewing themed party. You can chill the filled biscuits before serving so that the filling is hard, just like the shop bought version.
You might also be interested in the Coraline Birthday cake and 14″ fabric Coraline doll pattern complete with little yellow rain jacket and wellies I designed and made for my daughters birthday gift. The end of this month sees my second blogaversary so as a gift for all my readers I am sharing this pattern for free! Please do share it with all your sewing friends! 🙂
- 228 grams unsalted butter
- 150 grams caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 200 grams Fair trade dark chocolate >85% cocoa solids
- 90 grams Fair trade cocoa powder
- 250 grams plain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 50 grams unsalted butter
- 65 grams vegetable shortening
- 230 grams icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp milk
- pinch salt
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: 18 x 2.5 inch cookies
This recipe fits into the theme of a few food blog challenges this month including:
1. Alphabakes, a challenge alternately hosted by Caroline over at Caroline Makes… and Ros at The More Than Occasional Baker. For this challenge we are given a letter each month and we are asked to share our recipes using ingredients or with a title starting with this particular letter. This month Caroline has given us the letter ‘O’.
2. We Should Cocoa is a gorgeous chocolaty challenge by Choclette over at Chocolate Log Blog. This month the challenge is hosted by Rebecca over at BakenQuilt and she has asked us to share our chocolate cookie recipes.
3. The Biscuit Barrel, by Laura at I’d Much Rather Bake Than is a monthly blogging challenge which asks us to share our biscuit and cookie recipes. This month the theme is festive and party.
4. Made With Love Mondays, a from scratch recipe round-up by Mark over at Javelin Warrior where folk all around the world share their from-scratch recipes.
5. Recipe of the Week over at A Mummy Too!
Free 14″ Fabric Coraline Doll Pattern
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Are cocoa solids the same as U.S. chocolate chips?
Cocoa solids are the amount of actual cocoa used in chocolate chips, or dark chocolate. You should see a percentage of cocoa solids in the ingredients list – dark chocolate has a lot more cocoa solids than, say, milk chocolate does.
Oh those do look fun. I’m sure I remember, in my dark, distant past, being told not to play with my food – tosh!
the other half would love these
These are brilliant! Such a simple design, but so incredibly effective!
What a great idea- I bet your daughter enjoyed her birthday party! Thanks for sending these to Alphabakes.
these are just so cute and clever. i have pinned these and will be attempting them one day x
Oh I do hope you do try them! Let me know how you get on if you do. 🙂
I adore these, and we are big Coraline fans, which makes these doubly wonderful in my book.
Thanks very much for linking this up with #recipeoftheweek. I’ve Pinned and Stumbled this post and there’s a fresh linky just gone live, featuring these! 🙂
Yay! Thank you ever so much Emily 🙂 We’re Coraline fans too. However, I only just read the book for the first time last night – what a fantastic story! I love the way Neil Gaiman thinks 🙂
These look fantastic, Elizabeth, and I love the contrast between the intense dark chocolate and the sweet frosting. And I’m fairly sure I wouldn’t need to wait for a party to enjoy these treats 🙂
Thanks Mark 🙂 They’re far too moreish though – I’ve eaten more than my fair share of them!
I love this idea!!! #weekendbloghop x
😀 Thanks for stopping by!
Looks lovely and very effective too. Found some great new food linkys thanks to your post too.
Thanks Fiona, and I’m delighted you’ve found some new food linkys! 🙂
Elizabeth, I absolutely love those button cookies! I know what I’m making for my next quilting get-together. The cake and the doll are spectacular as well. Thanks for playing along with We Should Coca this month!
My pleasure Rebecca, thank you for hosting and for your lovely comment 🙂 Let me know how you get on with the cookies!
You are so clever, creative and capable!
Aw thanks Michelle!
These look so cute and adorable <3
Thank you 🙂
Oh I love these and even more so because you haven’t taken the easy route and used a biscuit mould. Great idea.
Thanks Angela! I had no idea there was a biscuit mould for such things – that would certainly speed things up! 🙂
Elizabeth, I am in love with your chocolate buttons. Oreos are all well and good, but these win hands down. I have a friends birthday to bake for soon and would love to do something similar. Not sure I’ll have the time, but I will if I can. Failing that, they’d make fab Christmas gifts.
They do take a little while to make what with all the chilling and 20 minutes a batch (about 8 halves – four cookies in total) per tray means it does take awhile. I hope you get the chance to make them though. Alternatively, the button technique could be used on smaller shortbread cookies. 🙂 Thank you for your lovely comment!
your biscuits look gorgeous – I made oreos recently and just used cocoa but the idea of using dark chocolate as well sounds even better – glad you made them – maybe another opportunity will come up to present them at a party – I hope so as they are so adorable. And your Coraline doll and cake look wonderful – I haven’t heard of the movie but I love neil gaiman and will check it out and then look more at the cake and doll.
Thank you Johanna 🙂 I’m going to have to give Neil Gaiman’s other books a read, I love his imagination!
Yet another amazing idea and gorgeously photographed. Thank you so much for sharing them witht the Biscuit Barrel challenge!
Aw thanks Laura! Thanks for hosting such a great challenge to share them with!
These look wonderful!
I had no idea who Coraline was and had to look it up. Now I understand!
The cookies are a great idea and I can see hoe the button pattern would work with other biscuits. Thanks for the recipe.
It’s such a fantastic animation – I highly recommend you watch it! I have used this button pattern with shortbread cookies before. They’re quite effective. 🙂