Cookie Sticks – 365 Days of Baking

December 3, 2023

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By Lynne on December 3, 2023 » Go away a evaluate

When you want a simple cookie recipe with a enjoyable twist in your Christmas Cookie Tray, then you must make these chocolate chip Cookie Sticks! Made with mini chocolate chips and chopped walnuts, these buttery cookies are baked, then dipped into melted chocolate and sprinkled with much more nuts and sprinkles. Your get together visitors will go “nuts” for these candy treats!

I like vacation baking and all the time attempt to convey some selection to my cookie platter. I like Christmas Sugar Cookie, and naturally, have to incorporate classics like Mexican Wedding ceremony Cookies and Chocolate Cherry Thumbprints. However you don’t see Cookie Sticks fairly often, so you already know this superb deal with will stand out!

Welcome to 2023’s 12 Days of Cookies!
These Meringue Christmas Bushes are Day 9 of our 12 Days of Cookies!
You should definitely take a look at the entire different days for extra goodies!

Day 1 – Cherry Biscotti
Day 2 – Bitter Cream Cookies
Day 3 – Chai Spritz Cookies
Day 4 – Millionaire Bars
Day 5 – Chocolate Chip Potato Chip Cookies
Day 6 – Nana’s Oatmeal Cookies
Day 7 – No Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
Day 8 – Espresso Cake Cookies
Day 9 – Meringue Christmas Bushes
Day 10 – You’re on it!
Day 11 –
Day 12 –

What do these cookies style like?

These stick cookies are a crisp cookie, harking back to shortbread. They style like a mixture between sugar cookies and traditional nutty chocolate chip cookies with additional chocolate because of the dip on the finish. No cookie cutters wanted!
All you want is a pizza cutter.

These cookie sticks are scrumptious with a chilly glass of milk or a cup of espresso or scorching cocoa for an after-school snack! Additionally they make an ideal present!

Components for Chocolate Chip Stick Cookies

These chocolate chip sticks are straightforward to make with all of the traditional cookie components:

¾ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
¾ cup sugar
1 giant egg
1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt (use 3/4 teaspoon if utilizing salted butter)
10 ounces mini chocolate chips, divided
1 ⅓ cups finely chopped walnuts, divided
1 ½ teaspoons coconut oil, for melting chocolate
Christmas nonpareils for adorning

First, we’ll make the dough; then, we’ll form it into sticks and bake. Lastly, we are going to dip and embellish the cookies.

Warmth oven to 350 levels F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a big bowl or stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar collectively till mild and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Add the egg and mix. Stir within the vanilla.

Subsequent, whisk collectively the flour and salt in a separate medium bowl. Pour the dry components into the moist components and blend till simply mixed. Combine in 1 cup of the mini chocolate chips and 1 cup of the chopped walnuts.

On a clear work floor, place the dough onto a separate sheet of parchment, and flatten barely. Put one other sheet of parchment on prime and gently roll the dough right into a rectangle that measures 8.5 X 11 inches and is about ½-inch thick. Refrigerate for half-hour.

Take away from the fridge and with a pizza cutter, slice into sticks which are ½ – ¾ inch thick and three ¾ – 4 inches lengthy (see image above). Refrigerate for 1 hour.

Separate the sticks and place onto the ready baking sheets about an inch aside. If baking one sheet at a time, hold the opposite within the fridge.
Bake for 12 – quarter-hour till evenly golden. Cool for a minimum of 10 minutes on the baking sheet earlier than eradicating to a wire rack to chill fully earlier than dipping and adorning.

Baked chocolate chip cookies in the form of sticks!

Make the Chocolate Coating

Put the remaining 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and 1 ½ teaspoons of coconut oil right into a small bowl. Soften for 30 seconds and stir nicely to mix. Soften once more in 10-second increments, if obligatory, stirring in between.

Put together a flat floor with a sheet of parchment paper. Dip one finish of the cooled cookie into the melted chocolate, scraping the surplus off the underside on the rim of the bowl, after which sprinkle the top of the persist with the remaining walnuts or sprinkles. You may select to depart some plain or simply dipped in chocolate. Place the completed cookies onto the parchment to permit the chocolate to set.

Cookies with walnuts and chocolate chips.

Recipe Notes

You may also embellish these cookie sticks with sprinkles or coloured sugar for a festive contact.
You may substitute darkish chocolate or white chocolate chips for the coating and even add crimson or inexperienced meals coloring to make them additional jolly!
Be sure to permit the chocolate to chill and harden earlier than serving the cookies.
The ½ cup of chocolate chips and 1 ½ teaspoons of coconut oil shall be sufficient to dip about 28 of the 45 cookies. Simply double the components in case you’d wish to dip all of them.

Chocolate chip and walnut Stick cookies dipped in chocolate and decorated with more walnuts.

Retailer these in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as per week.

Are you able to freeze these cookies?

Sure, you possibly can! I like to recommend freezing them after baking and cooling, however earlier than dipping because the chocolate will barely lose it’s shine when frozen. Then, if you end up able to serve them, make the chocolate coating recent and dip.

Sticks of decorated chocolate dipped cookies.

Sure, it is going to assist forestall the cookie dough from spreading because it bakes.
You have to refrigerate the rectangle of dough for a minimum of half-hour as a result of it is going to be simpler to slice into sticks.
Then refrigerate the sliced dough for a further hour. Don’t separate the dough earlier than refrigerating because the sticks might break.

Attempt a few of these traditional cookies subsequent time you’ll want to share some cookies:

Stick cookies that have been dipped in chocolate and decorated.

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Cookie Sticks

Prep Time 15

Prepare dinner Time 15

Cookie Sticks are buttery cookies with mini chocolate chips and chopped walnuts. Baked and dipped into melted chocolate and adorned with nuts and sprinkles, everybody will go “nuts” for these treats!

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Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F, and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a big mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar collectively till mild and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and mix. Combine within the vanilla.
In a medium bowl, whisk collectively the flour and salt. Pour into the moist components and and blend till simply mixed. Combine in 1 cup of the mini chocolate chips and 1 cup of the finely chopped walnuts.
On a clear work floor, place the dough onto a sheet of parchment, and flatten barely. Put one other sheet of parchment on prime and gently roll the dough right into a rectangle that measures 8.5 x11inches and is a few 1/2-inch thick. I did want to make use of my palms sometimes to form and make it even. Refrigerate for half-hour.
Take away from the fridge and with a pizza cutter, slice into sticks which are 1/2 – 3/4 inch thick and three 3/4 – 4 inches lengthy. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
Fastidiously separate the sticks and place onto the ready baking sheets about 1-2 inches aside. If baking one sheet at a time, hold the opposite within the fridge.
Bake for 12 – quarter-hour till evenly golden. Cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet earlier than eradicating to a wire rack to chill fully earlier than dipping and adorning.

Chocolate Coating

Put the remaining 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and 1 1/2 teaspoons of coconut oil right into a small microwaveable bowl. Soften for 30 seconds, and stir nicely to mix. Soften once more in 10 second increments, if obligatory, stirring in between. This quantity will solely coat 28 of the 45 cookies. When you’d wish to coat all of them, you’ll need to double the chocolate chips and coconut oil.
Put together a flat floor with an extended sheet of parchment paper. Dip one finish of the cookie into the chocolate scraping the surplus off the rim of the bowl, after which embellish with remaining walnuts and / or sprinkles or depart plain. Place the cookies onto the parchment to permit chocolate to set for a minimum of half-hour at room temperature or 20 minutes within the fridge.

Notes

I solely used ⅓ cup of the finely chopped walnuts to brighten a number of the cookies as I made a decision I needed to depart half of the batch plain, and embellish the remaining with sprinkle or simply dipped in chocolate.
I discovered it best when adorning to carry the chocolate coated cookie over the bowl of walnuts or sprinkles and use a spoon to cowl them.

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