Chocolate-Dipped Embossed Sugar Cookies

What we love about these homemade sugar cookies is that the embossed rolling pin does all the work of making them pretty.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup granulated organic cane sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2.75 cups unbleached organic all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder

Instructions

1. Cream butter and sugar together in the bowl of your stand mixer, or in a large bowl  Beat in egg and vanilla. 
2. Combine flour and baking powder. Blend dry ingredients into wet ingredients in several batches. Be sure to mix thoroughly before adding more dry ingredients.
3. Refrigerate dough for an hour or so.
4. Divide dough the dough in half. Roll dough out to 1/8-inch thickness on a floured surface. Use a patterned rolling pin to emboss the dough.
5. Use a round cookie cutter or a highball glass to cut into simple circles, or use your favorite cookie cutter shapes.
6. Place cut out cookies on an ungreased baking sheet. I like to line mine with one of these. Cool slightly then remove to wire rack. Cool completely before attempting to dip in chocolate.
7. Pre heat oven to 400F degrees. Bake for six to ten minutes or until cookies are light brown around the edges.

To make chocolate dipped sugar cookies

1. Melt one bag of chocolate chips in a double boiler stirring constantly. Chocolate can burn over high heat; a double boiler prevents this from happening. If you don't have a double boiler, you can set a small saucepan into a larger saucepan partly filled with water.
2. (Be sure that you don't get any water in the chocolate.)
3. Once the chocolate is melted, dip one edge of each cookie and set cookies onto a wire rack.

recipe courtesy of attainable-sustainable.net