Chocolate Stuffed Mardi Gras King Cake Cookies [homemade]



by LetsCookie

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  1. Recipe below:

    Mardi Gras King Cake Stuffed Cookies

    Format: Stuffed cookie with chocolate cream cheese center, white icing on top, purple green gold sanding sugar

    Yield: About 16-20 cookies

    Portioning: 1-ounce disher

    Bake: 350°F for ~14 minutes

    Chocolate Cream Cheese Filling (make first)

    Ingredients
    8 oz full-fat cream cheese, very soft

    1½ TB cocoa powder

    1/4 cup dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted and cooled

    ¾ cup powdered sugar, to taste

    1 tsp vanilla extract

    Pinch salt

    Method

    Mix cream cheese until completely smooth.

    Add cocoa powder and powdered sugar. Mix well.

    Mix in cooled melted chocolate, vanilla, and salt.

    Scoop or pipe small portions and freeze until rock solid.

    This filling stays rich, chocolatey, and stable. It will not leak if frozen solid!!!!

    King Cake Cookie Dough

    Dry Ingredients
    2¾ cups all-purpose flour

    ½ tsp baking soda

    ½ tsp baking powder

    ¾ tsp salt

    ½ tsp cinnamon

    Wet Ingredients

    1 cup granulated sugar

    ¾ cup butter (1½ sticks), room temperature

    1 large egg

    1½ tsp vanilla extract

    1 TB milk or cream
    Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

    Add egg and vanilla. Mix well.

    Add milk or cream.

    Whisk dry ingredients together and add to dough just until combined.

    Chill dough 20 to 30 minutes if soft.

    Assembly
    Scoop dough using a 1-ounce disher.

    Flatten slightly.

    Place one frozen chocolate filling portion in the center.

    Seal completely and roll gently into a ball.

    Freeze assembled cookies 20 -30 minutes.

    Baking

    350°F
    Bake ~14 minutes

    Edges set, centers soft

    Cool on pan 10 minutes, then transfer

    Do not overbake. These should stay plush.

    White Icing (King Cake Style)

    Ingredients

    4 oz cream cheese, very soft

    2 TB butter, very soft

    1 cup powdered sugar

    2-3 TB milk or cream

    ½ tsp vanilla extract

    Pinch salt

    Method

    Mix everything until smooth and spoonable.

    Adjust with milk so it gently drapes but does not run off.

    Finishing

    Once cookies are cooled or just barely warm, spoon or pipe icing over the tops.

    Immediately sprinkle sanding sugar in three distinct sections:

    Purple

    Green

    Gold

    Do not mix the sugars. The stripes matter.

    Storage

    Refrigerate due to cream cheese filling and icing.
    Bring to room temperature before serving for best texture.

  2. Green_Frosting2721 on

    This type of kitchen and cookie recipe makes sense to me! Thanks OP for the video and recipe!

  3. lumbardumpster on

    You have a thousand dollar blender, could you not get a bigger saucepan?!

    (These look good though.)

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