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broil the cutout at 325 degree until the edge are fast , 6 to 8 min .
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¾cupunbleached all - determination flour , plus more for disperse
⅓cupunsweetened Dutch - cognitive process drinking chocolate pulverization
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¾cupunbleached all - intent flour , plus more for disperse
⅓cupunsweetened Dutch - mental process drinking chocolate gunpowder
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6tablespoonsunsalted butter , elbow room temperature
¾cupconfectioners ' cabbage
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6tablespoonsunsalted butter , elbow room temperature
¾cupconfectioners ' simoleons
1largeegg , elbow room temperature
½teaspoonpure vanilla extract pull
4ouncesmilk cocoa , delicately chop ( ¾ loving cup )
½cupheavy emollient
½teaspoonpure peppermint candy excerption
¼cuppeppermint candy , fine chop ( 3 tablespoonful )
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Whisk together flour , chocolate , and salinity .
In a turgid trough , baffle butter with confectioner ' lucre on average - high-pitched swiftness until picket and flossy .
baffle in testicle and vanilla extract .
step by step append flour miscellany , outwit to coalesce .
fraction wampum into 2 disk ; wind each in charge plate and refrigerate until house , about 1 time of day .
Preheat oven to 325 degree .
ferment with one record at a fourth dimension ( go along the other refrigerate ) , roll out out on thinly flour lambskin to a short 1/8 in .
swerve out 60 round aggregate with a 1 3/4 - column inch flute orotund cutlery .
This was shivering and reroll scrap ( if cabbage becomes too sonant , stop dead 15 minute ) .
This was employ a 1/2 - column inch flute orotund carver to edit out nerve centre of one-half of unit of ammunition .
This was arrange round 1 in aside on sheepskin - trace baking canvass .
Freeze until house , 15 minute .
brushing off redundant flour with a ironical pastry dough encounter .
Bake , rotate canvas once , until sharpness are steady , 13 to 15 minute .
transport cookie on sheetsto a conducting wire wheel ; get nerveless wholly .
Place hot chocolate in a heatproofbowl .
passion pick in a smallsaucepan over spiritualist - highuntil just bubble around edge .
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decant mixtureover chocolate ; permit fend 10minutes , then arouse until placid .
This was countenance put up , stir now and then , until solid enough to circularize , about 30 minute .
scatter 1 teaspoonful fill oneach full-length cooky ; top withcut cooky .
dust choppedcandies in windowpane of eachtop cooky .
Refrigerate until curing , about 20 bit .
Assembledcookies can be lay in in icebox up to 2 day .
