Recipe: Perfect Sig's Zebra Butter and Vanilla Cookies

Sig's Zebra Butter and Vanilla Cookies. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Add cocoa to one half and mix well. Add egg yolk and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add egg and vanilla to cream mixture; beat well.

Add flour mixture and chocolate chips; mix well. In a large bowl beat butter and granulated sugar with electric mixer until fluffy. Beat in eggs until mixture is pale yellow, then add vanilla and chocolate until blended. You can cook Sig's Zebra Butter and Vanilla Cookies using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sig's Zebra Butter and Vanilla Cookies

1. It's 1 1/2 cup of butter, softened.
2. Prepare 1 cup of fine sugar.
3. Prepare 2/3 cup of confectioners sugar.
4. Prepare 1 of egg medium.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. It's 3 cup of all-purpose flour.
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp of sea salt.
8. It's 1/4 cup of of cocoa powder.
9. Prepare 1 of good pinch of cinnamon.

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Sig's Zebra Butter and Vanilla Cookies instructions

1. in a large bowl whisk the sugars and butter until creamy.
2. beat in the egg and vanilla extract until fluffy.
3. add salt and flour stir in until mixed well.
4. divide the dough into two halves.
5. add the cocoa. and cinnamon to one half and mix in.
6. roll each half between waxed paper into 9inch squares..
7. cut both squares into 3 inch strips then cut the strips into. 4 1/2 x3 inch rectangles.
8. place one cream coloured rectangle on plastic wrap or grease proof paper top with chocolate rectangle, repeat layers until dough is used up. Wrap in the plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours.
9. unwrap and cut widthwise into 18 slices about 1/4 inch thick.
10. either roll out slightly to get marble look or leave stripy look cut out the biscuit shape.
11. place on ungreased. baking sheet bake at 375°F for 8-10 minutes, bake until golden let stand for 2 minutes to cool..

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