Chocolate-Vanilla Swirl Cookies

So many com­mer­cial cook­ies in the US con­tain high fruc­tose corn syrup and/or arti­fi­cial col­ors, it makes sense to bake home­made cook­ies with sim­ple whole­some ingre­di­ents. Kids love these choco­late-vanil­la swirl cook­ies, and they are easy to make. They are def­i­nite­ly worth a try to give you the peace of mind to know exact­ly what your kids are eat­ing! (By the way, par­ents like them too!)

Recipe

You can find the recipe in French here. I rec­om­mend prepar­ing the dough the evening before and let­ting it rest in the refrig­er­a­tor overnight. That way, the next day, you just have to slice the dough, and stick the cook­ies in the oven!

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Choco­late-Vanil­la Swirl Cook­ies

Course

Cook­ies

Prep Time

15 min­utes

Cook Time

20 min­utes

Pas­sive Time

7 hours

Serv­ings

cook­ies

Ingre­di­ents

For the vanil­la dough

• 10 1/2 ounces All pur­pose flour (300g)
• 5 1/4 ounces gran­u­lat­ed sug­ar (150g)
• 3 1/2 ounces but­ter (100g)
• 1 egg
• 2 table­spoons milk
• 2 tea­spoons vanil­la extract

For the choco­late dough

• 9 1/2 ounces All pur­pose flour (270g)
• 1 ounce unsweet­ened cocoa pow­der (30g)
• 5 1/4 ounces gran­u­lat­ed sug­ar (150g)
• 3 1/2 ounces but­ter (100g)
• 1 egg
• 4 table­spoons milk

Course Cook­ies Prep Time 15 min­utes Cook Time 20 min­utes Pas­sive Time 7 hours Serv­ings cook­ies Ingre­di­ents For the vanil­la dough 10 1/2 ounces All pur­pose flour (300g) 5 1/4 ounces gran­u­lat­ed sug­ar (150g) 3 1/2 ounces but­ter (100g) 1 egg 2 table­spoons milk 2 tea­spoons vanil­la extract For the choco­late dough 9 1/2 ounces All pur­pose flour (270g) 1 ounce unsweet­ened cocoa pow­der (30g) 5 1/4 ounces gran­u­lat­ed sug­ar (150g) 3 1/2 ounces but­ter (100g) 1 egg 4 table­spoons milk

Instruc­tions

Mak­ing the vanil­la dough

1. Mix the flour with the sug­ar. Add the soft­ened but­ter, then the beat­en egg, and final­ly, the milk and the vanil­la extract. Mix all ingre­di­ents using your hands, until it becomes uni­form dough. Make a ball, wrap it in plas­tic wrap, and put it in the fridge for 1 hour.

Mak­ing the choco­late dough

1. Mix the flour, the cocoa pow­der and the sug­ar. Add the soft­ened but­ter, then the beat­en egg, and final­ly, the milk. Mix all ingre­di­ents using your hands, until it becomes uni­form dough. Make a ball, wrap it in plas­tic wrap, and put it in the fridge for 1 hour.

Mak­ing the cook­ies

1. Take both doughs out of the fridge 10 min­utes ahead of time. With a rolling pin, roll out the choco­late dough, and make a rec­tan­gle of about 25x40cm (about 10x16 inch­es). Do the same thing with the vanil­la dough (pic­tured). [Tip: sprin­kle the dough and rolling pin with flour to pre­vent the dough from stick­ing. I per­son­al­ly rolled out the doughs on 2 sep­a­rate sheets of alu­minum foil of the cor­rect rec­tan­gu­lar size, which made it eas­i­er to form 2 equal-size rec­tan­gles with both doughs.]

   
2. With a pas­try brush, spread a beat­en egg (egg wash) on the vanil­la dough. Then, put the choco­late dough on top of the vanil­la dough. Both doughs should be of the same size. If not the case, use a knife to remove any extra dough. [In oth­er words, the choco­late dough com­plete­ly cov­ers the vanil­la dough. The 2 doughs are on top of each oth­er so as to make a 2-lay­er dough (1 lay­er vanil­la, 1 lay­er choco­late) of equal thick­ness every­where, in the shape of a rec­tan­gle.]
3. With a pas­try brush, spread a beat­en egg (egg wash) on the choco­late dough. Begin­ning on one edge, roll the doughs to make a log so the two doughs spi­ral inside each oth­er.

   
4. Wrap the dough log with plas­tic wrap, and put it in the fridge for a min­i­mum of 6 hours. [Tip: if you have a baguette pan, you can put the dough log in the baguette pan. This helps main­tain its cir­cu­lar shape.]

   
5. Pre­heat the oven to 320 degrees Fahren­heit. Take your dough log out of the fridge, and cut it into slices. These slices are your cook­ies.

   
6. Place the slices on a bak­ing pan cov­ered with parch­ment paper. Bake in oven for 20 min­utes.

   
7. Let the cook­ies cool down, and enjoy!

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Recipe Name

Choco­late-Vanil­la Swirl Cook­ies

Author Name

French Mom Cook­ing

Pub­lished On

2017-10-24