Soft tutti frutti cookies with a delicious chocolate stuffing in the center.

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  • Yield: 15 cookies
  • Category: Recipes
  • Cuisine: Kitchen notes

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 1.5 cups all purpose flour
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • ½ cup butter [1 stick] (at room temperature)
  • ½ cup granulated white sugar
  • ¼ cup light brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2-3 tbsp water

Chocolate filling

  • ¼ cup butter (at room temperature)
  • ⅓ cup + 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder

Drizzle

  • ⅔ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Method

Cookies

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 350 F degrees. Line a baking tray with parchment paper or cover it with some non-stick spray and set aside.
  2. Sift together flour, cornstarch, salt and baking soda in a bowl, set aside.
  3. In steel bowl of your stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment or using your hand mixer cream together butter and both sugars till smooth and creamy, around 2-3 minutes. Add vanilla, water and mix.
  4. Add the flour into the butter-sugar mixture.
  5. Stir in the tutti frutti and mix till to form a dough.
  6. Make the filling by creaming together softened butter and sugar. Add cocoa powder and mix till you have smooth consistency filling ready.
  7. To make the cookies take 1 tbsp of dough, flatten it slightly and then using your thumb make a depression in the center. Fill the center with little chocolate filling. Then take 1 tbsp of dough again, flatten it a bit and put it over the chocolate filled dough. Seal the edges, then using your hands roll it to form a round shape and then flatten it slightly.
  8. Place the cookies on to the baking tray leaving 2 inch space between each cookie.
  9. Bake at 350 F degrees for 13-15 minutes.
  10. Transfer on wire rack to cool completely.

Drizzle

  1. melt chocolate chips in the microwave, stir after every 15 seconds so that the chocolate doesn't seize and form a lump. Add 1/2 teaspoon of shortening if the mixture isn't smooth. Drizzle over cookies once completely cooled.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.