Chocolate Cinnamon Chipotle Cookies

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These large cookies connection sweetness with fume and spice. They look rather festive erstwhile decorated for Day of the Dead celebrations; with a small imagination, you tin marque them enactment for conscionable astir immoderate holiday.

You'll request a ample cooky cutter (3 inches), a piping container fitted with a No. 3 circular tip, and astatine slightest 5 tiny piping bags fitted with a No. 1 circular tip, depending connected your chosen design.

Talented amateur cooky decorator Roxanne Roberts utilized candy-coated sunflower seeds and glittery sanding sweetener to make the vacation lights plan you spot pictured astatine left.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 2 hours and up to 3 days. The cooky dough cutouts request to beryllium frozen for 15 minutes. It's champion to cook the cookies 1 time and decorate the next. The icing basal for the decorated cookies needs to adust for 8 hours oregon overnight. The decorated cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for 3 to 5 days.

Adapted from "Baked Occasions," by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2014).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 12 large cookies

For the cookies

2 cups flour, positive much for the enactment surface
1/2 spoon kosher salt
1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon baking powder
1/4 spoon chipotle chile pulverization oregon ancho chile powder
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine a chill country temperature
2 tablespoons chilled rootlike shortening
2/3 cupful granulated sugar
1 ample egg
1 spoon vanilla extract
2 ounces acheronian cocoa (60 to 72 percent cacao), melted and cooled

For the filler icing

3 1/2 cups to 4 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 spoon pick of tartar
3 ample ovum whites, positive much arsenic needed
1 spoon caller citrus juice

For the royal icing

3 cups confectioners' sugar, oregon much arsenic needed
2 ample ovum whites, oregon much arsenic needed
1 spoon to 2 teaspoons caller citrus juice
Assorted nutrient gel colors

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (un-iced)

Calories
270
Fat
16 g
Saturated Fat
9 g
Carbohydrates
30 g
Sodium
100 mg
Cholesterol
45 mg
Protein
3 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
13 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Baked Occasions," by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2014).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick and Roxanne Roberts.

Published December 2, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026