Chocolate and Vanilla Twists

4th cookie in the series. Jonathan's favorite!

3/4 cup butter

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg

2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 cups flour

3 Tablespoons cocoa powder

Makes 4 dozen

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Directions:

Cream butter and sugar. Whip well.

Add egg and vanilla, blend well.

Mix in salt and baking powder. Then mix in flour, scraping down the sides as needed.

When everything is nicely mixed, remove 1/2 of the dough to plastic wrap. This will be the vanilla half of the cookies. Pop it into the fridge.

Add the cocoa powder to the remaining dough. Mixing slowly at first, or you'll be cleaning cocoa powder off yourself and the floor and the counter tops. :) When the chocolate part is mixed well. Wrap in plastic and put that in the fridge too.

This dough is sticky if it's warm. So, chill well. At least 3 hours. I prefer overnight.

Heat oven to 325*F

After chilling well, remove dough from the fridge. Working quickly... Cut off a piece of each dough, rolling out a rope smaller than the diameter of a pencil. One rope of vanilla, one of chocolate. Cut them about 1 1/2 inches long and twist together. Place on parchment lined cookie sheet. They do flatten a bit, leave space between. If the dough gets warm and sticky, return to fridge to chill.

Bake for 13 minutes. They should be SLIGHTLY browned on the vanilla side. Don't over bake! 

Cute, huh?

They are crunchy and sweet. Not overwhelmingly chocolate. Just a prefect balance of chocolate and vanilla. The vanilla is quite strong in this, so it does come through, even wrapped with the chocolate. Enjoy!