Preparation time
- Total: Approximately 45 minutes
- Preparation: 15 minutes
- Cooking: 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 2-1/4 cups All Purpose Flour (Maida)
- 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
- 1 cup Butter
- 1/2 cup Caster Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Sunflower Oil
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 tablespoons Water
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 1-1/2 cup Caster Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 tablespoon Water
- Decorative sugar (Cake/ Candy Sprinkles) - (preferably
Instructions
- To prepare Eggless Christmas Tree Chocolate Cookies Recipe, get prep with all the ingredients required and sift all purpose flour and cocoa powder in a bowl
- Keep aside
- Take butter (at room temperature) and sugar in a large bowl
- Whisk until light and fluffy using hand/electric whisk
- Next, add baking powder, oil, water and vanilla essence
- Whisk again until everything incorporates well
- Now, add dry ingredients to the fluffy mixture and mix well to get a sticky dough
- Wrap the dough with a cling film and freeze for 10-15 minutes
- After 10-15 minutes, take out the dough from the refrigerator
- Divide the dough into about 1 tablespoon size balls (makes 60 such balls)
- Flatten 10 such balls to get the smallest of the cookies
- You can either just flatten with fingers or shape it the way you like, in the cookie cutter
- Combine 2 such balls and flatten to get the 10 medium sized layer of the Christmas tree cookie recipe
- Combine 3 such balls and flatten to get the base of the Christmas tree cookie recipe (10 in number again)
- Remember, there should be an equal number of each sized balls and they all should be similarly shaped
- The measurements given here result into 10 big balls, 10 medium balls and 10 small balls
- Transfer the big flattened balls to a baking sheet leaving 1 inch space between each cookie as these tend to expand
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 deg C
- for 15 minutes
- Transfer the medium flattened balls to another baking sheet leaving 1 inch space between and bake for 15 minutes
- Transfer the small flattened balls to another baking sheet leaving 1 inch space between and bake for 11-12 minutes
- Remove from oven, place all the cookies on a wire rack to cool down completely
- Meanwhile, start to make the frosting
- Take butter (at room temperature) in a bowl and whisk until pale and yellow using hand / electric blender
- Add caster sugar (1 cup), whisk until light and fluffy
- Next, add water and vanilla essence
- Whisk for 2-3 minutes
- Now, add the rest of caster sugar and whisk again until everything incorporates well
- The frosting is ready now
- To assemble the Christmas tree, take a large serving plate
- Place all the big cookies on the plate leaving 1/2 inch space in between
- Take a piping bag fitted with a medium star nozzle
- Fill it with frosting
- Pipe a swirl of frosting on top of the big cookies
- Then place the medium cookies over the frosting of big cookies and pipe a swirl of frosting on top of the medium cookies
- Then place the small cookies over the frosting of medium cookies and pipe a swirl of frosting on top of the small cookies
- Decorate each layer of frosting with Christmas tree sprinkles
- Keep the Eggless Christmas Tree Chocolate Cookies Recipe in refrigerator until its time to serve
Other informations
The table below shows servings values and other necessary informations.
- Servings
- Cuisine
- Course
- Diet
- 10
- Continental
- Dessert
- Vegetarian