Looking for a simple yet delightful homemade gift for Valentine’s Day or well any festive occasion? These Panda Cookies are the perfect choice (not modest at all hehehe)! Not only are they pretty easy to make, but they’re also a fun and creative way to show someone you care. Whether you’re baking for a loved one, a friend, or even just for yourself, these buttery, melt-in-your-mouth cookies are sure to bring a smile to anyone’s face.
The best part about this recipe is its versatility. While the original design features adorable panda shapes, you can easily adapt it to any cookie mold you have on hand. Don’t have a panda mold? No problem! Use heart-shaped molds for Valentine’s Day, festive shapes for holidays, or even simple rounds—the possibilities are endless. The dough is straightforward butter type cookies and so easy to prepare, and the decorating process is a fun activity that kids and adults alike will enjoy.
Homemade Chocolate Panda Sugar Cookies
The quickest way to anyone's heart is through their chest!!!! But the next best thing is through the tummy, nothing like these cute crumbly buttery cookies, instant success!
Ingredients
- Flour – 310gr (With no Baking Powder)
- Butter – 170gr
- Sugar – 155gr
- Vanilla – 1 teaspoon (+/- 5ml Extract)
- Egg Yolks – 3
- Chocolate Powder – 2 Tablespoons
- Salt – A pinch
- Chocolate – 100gr
Directions
- Combine the butter cut into small cubes with the sugar in a bowl and whisk until blended.
- Then add a teaspoon of vanilla, followed by the 3 egg yolks and a pinch of salt, mix until everything is combined.
- At the end, add the sifted unleavened flour, mix everything together until you get a dough, knead a little until you create a ball of dough (but as I said above, don’t mix too much), now separate into 2 balls, one you will add the chocolate powder, mix again a little until the chocolate spreads, wrap both balls in cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour or up to 24 hours.
- When you want to make the cookies, take a ball of dough, stretch it between 2 sheets of cling film (so it doesn’t stick), then use a mold and cut out the cookies and take them to a tray to refrigerate (because if you take the warm cookies to the oven they will melt, it’s better to take them to the oven very cold, so the cookies bake better), with the leftover dough, create a ball again and stretch and cut again.
- Repeat for the other ball of dough and put all the cookies in the fridge for at least an hour to chill.
- When it’s time to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 170ºC and line a baking tray with non-stick paper.
- Pour the cookies onto the tray and bake, depending on the thickness and type of oven, they should take between 8 and 12 minutes to be ready, you can tell when the edge of the cookies is browning so it’s time to take them out.
- Remove from the tray and let the cookies cool and crisp up, in the case of these panda cookies, after they had cooled it was time to melt 100gr of chocolate and use the chocolate to glue the cookies together and that’s it, ready to eat hehehe, bon appetit!
This recipe for Homemade Chocolate Panda Sugar Cookies was originally created on BakeAfter.com. Esta receita de Biscoitos de Panda foi publicada em português no Iguaria.com.
Nutrition
Per Serving: 3667 calories; 188 g fat; 454 g carbohydrates; 49 g protein.Did you try this recipe?
Let me know how it turned out for you! Happy Valentines and leave a comment below ;D
