Chocolate Wafer Cookie Stack Cakes

I only honey novel beginnings (no preaching most diets hither – come across photograph above).  I’m non certain if I instruct to a greater extent than personal satisfaction from completing projects or planning together with executing them.  Even though Thanksgiving together with Christmas are non projects per se, they are diversions from the normal procedure of everyday life.  There is together with then much planning, shopping, decorating, cooking together with other details together with it’s such a approving when it all comes together.  It is likewise enormously satisfying when it’s all cleaned upward together with position away.

These chocolate wafer cookies correspond the terminal of the vacation baking at our house.  I served them alongside Homemade Peppermint Ice Cream at Christmas Eve dinner together with they were a perfect accompaniment to the bright, creamy peppermint flavor.  Chocolate together with peppermint are non strangers together with although they’re non related, they compliment i some other deliciously!

This is, past times far, the blackest dough I’ve always seen.  The recipe calls for Dutch-process cocoa every bit good every bit dark cocoa.  I used Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Cocoa together with it seems to possess got done the trick.

 

The cookies are non overly sweetness together with are real crispy.  Rolling the dough sparse is of import because y'all desire wafers, non cutting out cookies.  The leftovers possess got been sitting closed to a few days together with then I idea I would brand this layered dessert for a New Year’s Eve care for – y'all know earlier nosotros start the diet – no preaching, only saying.

 

The cracking affair most this recipe is how afterward most 24 hours inward the fridge, this cookie stack softens together with turns into chocolate cake.  No to a greater extent than crisp cookies, only soft cake similar layers sandwiched betwixt espresso together with cocoa flavored whipped cream.   This would likewise travel cracking alongside a peanut butter mousse or peppermint cream.  The possibilities are express solely past times the imagination!

Sprinkle alongside a piffling shaved chocolate, sifted cocoa, powdered sugar, kokosnoot or fresh fruit.  This is a fantastic brand ahead dessert – only refresh alongside a dollop of whipped cream together with garnish earlier serving.

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Chocolate Wafer Cookie Stack Cakes

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

8 mins

Total Time

38 mins

 

Rich chocolate cookies sandwiched alongside whipped cream together with refrigerated overnight. The cookies travel soft together with cake-like creating a low-cal together with luscious dessert.

Course:

Dessert

Servings: 3

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the cookies:

• 
  1
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  unsalted butter,
  room temperature
  


• 
  3/4
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  baking powder
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  espresso powder,
  granules
  


• 
  1
  large egg
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  1 1/2
  cups
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  Special Dark Chocolate Cocoa
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  Dutch-process cocoa
  

For the filling:

• 
  1
  cup
  heavy whipping cream,
  very cold
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  Dutch-process cocoa
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  espresso pulverization / granules
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Line 2 or to a greater extent than baking sheets alongside parchment paper.
   
   


2. 
   
   In a medium mixing bowl combine the sugar, butter, salt, baking pulverization together with espresso powder.  Beat inward the egg together with vanilla.  Then add together the flour together with cocoa.  Cover the dough together with refrigerate for xxx minutes.
   
   


3. 
   
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
   
   


4. 
   
   Roll the dough out on a large slice of parchment newspaper to most 1/8 inch thick, using cocoa instead of flour to dust the rolling pivot together with surface.  Cut into 2 1/2″ circular cookies.
   
   


5. 
   
   Bake for most 10 minutes taking attention to depository fiscal establishment fit them close the 8 infinitesimal mark.  If y'all olfactory belongings chocolate earlier the 10 minutes is up, accept them out to cool.  Cool cookies completely on a wire rack.  Store inward an airtight container.
   
   


6. 
   
   To brand the stack cakes whisk together the cream, sugar, cocoa together with espresso.  Beat until soft peaks form.  Layer the cake stacks starting alongside i cookie on the bottom, i heaping teaspoon of the filling, transcend alongside a 2d cookie pressing slightly to compress the whipped cream to most 1/4″ thick.  Repeat alongside four to a greater extent than cookies.  Refrigerate 24 hours earlier serving.  Add a dollop of whipped cream together with garnish alongside chocolate shavings only earlier serving.
   
   

Recipe Notes

(adapted from a recipe past times King Arthur Flour)

My married adult man asked if I could bake to a greater extent than cookies inward 2013, or possibly bake i cookie recipe each calendar week for the entire yr similar I did alongside pies inward 2011.  I agreed to create at to the lowest degree i cookie recipe each month, likely more, but I possess got together with then many other recipes I’d similar to bake every bit well.  Looking dorsum it’s difficult to believe I’ve never posted chocolate flake or oatmeal cookies – that is real sad, peculiarly for a dessert heavy blog.  So facial expression to come across to a greater extent than cookies inward 2013 together with salubrious recipes tucked inward between.

You’ll respect me spending to a greater extent than fourth dimension on the treadmill, to a greater extent than fourth dimension working on my fifteen projects together with to a greater extent than fourth dimension on adventurous recipes leaning heavily on other cultures together with flavors.

I received the entire collection of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking for Christmas.  So I bet you’ll come across some lovely French recipes every bit well.

Looking dorsum on 2012 I come across a lot of recipes I’m proud of, many things I desire to brand in i lawsuit to a greater extent than together with others I would similar to tweak hither together with there.  I possess got an enormous file of failed recipes.  A few volition travel far to the tabular array this year, alongside problems corrected of course.

I promise y'all all possess got a wonderful, safe, fun filled New Year’s Eve!  No political party for us – I’ll likely travel inward bed past times 10:00 p.m.  Such a party pooper!  Many approving to y'all together with your menage unit of measurement inward 2013!!!

Have I told y'all how much I appreciate you?  Thanks together with then much for stopping by!

  Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com