COCOA SHORTCRUST MASKS FOR CARNIVAL
Cocoa shortcrust masks are sweet shortcrust cookies that can be baked to celebrate Carnival with our children.
Last year I suggested the SHORTCRUST CARNIVAL MASKS and today I am offering the cocoa version, even more delicious and really easy to make: you won’t need a mold, just draw a mask on a sheet of paper, cut it out and voilà 🙂
Place the paper on the shortcrust (make sure not on the side where you wrote) and cut it out with a small knife 😉
Let’s see how I made them 😉
EMIMETTOAIFORNELLI recommends:
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Rest time: 1 Hour
- Preparation time: 1 Hour
- Portions: 12
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Carnival
Ingredients
- 1.6 cup all-purpose flour
- 0.4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 egg
- 7 tbsp butter
- 0.8 cup powdered sugar
- 3.5 oz white chocolate
- glitter sugars
Tools
- Bowl
- Mixer
- Rolling pin
- Cooling rack
Steps
As I mentioned earlier, if you can, make the shortcrust the night before, otherwise at least an hour of rest in the refrigerator.
Let’s make our cocoa shortcrust —> VERY EASY COCOA SHORTCRUST
You can print a drawing of a carnival mask, or make it by hand like I did, on a piece of paper and then let your inner art attack begin and cut it out with rounded-tip scissors.
MAKE SURE to place the stencil on the clean side of the paper, not where you drew 🙂
Once the shortcrust is made and rested in the fridge, take it out to acclimate by working it a bit with your hands: roll out the shortcrust with the rolling pin on a lightly floured work surface and roll out to a couple of centimeters thick.
Place the stencil on top and cut with a fine-pointed knife (I helped myself with a small scalpel that I use for BREAD )
Place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 320°F fan (356°F static) for about 15 minutes.
Obviously, each of us has a different oven so adjust with yours, it might need more or less time.
Once baked, let them cool on a cake rack, in the meantime melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and once melted, dip the cookies halfway, finally sprinkle with colored sprinkles,
Let them dry for about an hour before eating them 🙂
The COCOA SHORTCRUST MASKS FOR CARNIVAL are ready to be bitten by the kids and enjoyed with a steaming cup of tea, by the adults 🙂
