Cocoa Cookies Recipe

• 100 g Butter
• 50 g Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla or Vanillin Sugar
• 1 large Egg Yolk
• 4-5 tbsp Cocoa Powder
• Coarse Wheat Flour (see instructions below)
• ½ tsp Baking Powder

• Beat butter, sugar and vanilla together, until pale and fluffy.
• Add in the egg yolk and beat until smooth.
• Add enough flour to cocoa powder to make it weigh 150 grams (combined weight of flour and cocoa powder).
• Add baking powder to the flour and mix thoroughly.
• Add this to the butter mixture, through a sieve.
• Mix enough to combine the ingredients. Do not over mix.
• Wrap the dough in a plastic wrap and refrigerate to harden.
• Roll out the dough to form long cylindrical bars, about 2½ cm in diameter.
• Cut the bars about 5 cm in length and place them on a baking sheet.
• Dip the prongs of a fork in cold water and flatten the dough pieces with them, to form fluted cookies.
• Bake the cookies at 180-200°C for about 8 to 15 minutes, or till they get brown around the edges.