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Photos and recipe courtesy of Peas Love Carrots

Make board game night funner with pieces you can actually eat! We’re so glad to see that someone who shares our love for Scrabble and cookies had the brilliance to come up with these tasty treats! You can choose to make the cookies larger for easy snacking, or  actual size, and play a truly tempting game of Scrabble. Winner eats all!

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups AP flour
  • 1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter cut into 14 pieces, at room temperature
  • 1 cup superfine sugar (you can also pulse granulated sugar in a food processor for 1 minute)
  • 1/2 teaspoon table salt
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 4 ounces melted semisweet baking chocolate
  • The zest of 1 orange
  • 1 cup chocolate ganache or edible black marker

4320380617_5119fff7a4_bDirections

  1. On medium speed, mix butter, sugar and salt unti fluffy
  2. Add egg yolk, whole egg, zest and vanilla and mix until well blended
  3. Reduce speed to low and add flour slowly until well combined
  4. Divide dough half, wrap and refigerate unti firm – at least 1 hour and up to 2 days
  5. Preheat oven to 375 degree F and prepare 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or Silpat
  6. On a well-floured surface, roll out your first round to a 14 inch thick then drizzle over half your melted chocolate
  7. Knead the dough loosely to incorporate the chocolate just so you see streaks in the dough
  8. Re-flour your surface and roll dough out to 1/8 inch thick
  9. Cut cookies to desired size using a ruler and a sharp knife: 2 inches by 1 1/4 inches for large cookies, 2.5 cm by 2 cm for “actual size” cookies”
  10. Repeat process with second dough half
  11. Place cookies on baking sheets, and place sheets into oven (one on lower rack, one on upper)
  12. Bake for 5 – 7 minutes, rotating sheets half way thru baking (watch closely for browning)
  13. Cook and decorate either with melted ganache or edible marker (recommended for smaller cookies)

Makes approx 2 dozen large Scrabble cookies, or a whole boards’ worth of the “actual size”!

For larger (2 inch high) cookies: 1 cup chocolate ganache, cooled slightly and added to a piping bag with a number 3 round pastry tip (you’ll need a bar of semisweet baking chocolate and a pint of heavy cream for this – see “ganache” link for method)
OR
For “actual size” (2.5 cm high) cookies: Edible black markerWhat to do with it all…

  1. On medium speed, mix butter, sugar and salt unti fluffy
  2. Add egg yolk, whole egg, zest and vanilla and mix until well blended
  3. Reduce speed to low and add flour slowly until well combined
  4. Divide dough half, wrap and refigerate unti firm – at least 1 hour and up to 2 days
  5. Preheat oven to 375 degree F and prepare 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or Silpat
  6. On a well-floured surface, roll out your first round to a 14 inch thick then drizzle over half your melted chocolate
  7. Knead the dough loosely to incorporate the chocolate just so you see streaks in the dough
  8. Re-flour your surface and roll dough out to 1/8 inch thick
  9. Cut cookies to desired size using a ruler and a sharp knife: 2 inches by 1 1/4 inches for large cookies, 2.5 cm by 2 cm for “actual size” cookies”
  10. Repeat process with second dough half
  11. Place cookies on baking sheets, and place sheets into oven (one on lower rack, one on upper)
  12. Bake for 5 – 7 minutes, rotating sheets half way thru baking (watch closely for browning)
  13. Cook and decorate either with melted ganache, or edible marker (recommended for smaller cookies)