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
Directions
- On medium speed, mix butter, sugar and salt unti fluffy
- Add egg yolk, whole egg, zest and vanilla and mix until well blended
- Reduce speed to low and add flour slowly until well combined
- Divide dough half, wrap and refigerate unti firm – at least 1 hour and up to 2 days
- Preheat oven to 375 degree F and prepare 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or Silpat
- On a well-floured surface, roll out your first round to a 14 inch thick then drizzle over half your melted chocolate
- Knead the dough loosely to incorporate the chocolate just so you see streaks in the dough
- Re-flour your surface and roll dough out to 1/8 inch thick
- 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”
- Repeat process with second dough half
- Place cookies on baking sheets, and place sheets into oven (one on lower rack, one on upper)
- Bake for 5 – 7 minutes, rotating sheets half way thru baking (watch closely for browning)
- 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”!
The wine duo includes a bottle each of Andretti 2006 Montona Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and Andretti 2003 Montona Reserve Zinfandel Port (375ml), marked down over 50% when purchased as a pair! They hail from the legendary Napa Valley, on Mario Andretti and Joe Antonini’s Old World Italian vineyard. The Sauvignon marries notes of blackberry, cassis, rhubarb and cranberry, while the limited edition Zinfandel Port captures dark chocolate, blackberry and caramel.
Pop open a bottle and sit back with these custom hand-painted wine glasses! Providing an alternative to generic wine glasses, HuePhoria offers hand-blown, hand-painted, dishwasher safe stemware with a unique painted ball design. Your guests will never lose track of which glass is theirs from now on! They offer a grand selection of wine and martini glasses, salt and pepper shakers, and decorative ornaments as well!
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