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Lemon and Chocolate Battle Sheep Cookie Board Game

This is a great project for a long weekend, with a delicious crumbly cookie that can become a game!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Decorating Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Course: Dessert
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Lemon Cookie Dough
  • 3 Cups All-Purpose Flour
  • ⅓ Cup Semolina
  • 1 Cup Almond Flour
  • 1 ¼ Cup Granular Sugar
  • 5 Zested Lemons
  • 2 Sticks Butter cubed
  • 1 Egg
  • ¼ Cup Lemon Juice
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
Chocolate Cookie Dough
  • 1 Cup Chocolate Chips dark or milk
  • 2 ⅔ Cup All-Purpose Flour
  • ⅔ Cup Almond Flour
  • 1 ½ Cup Cocoa Powder
  • 1 ¼ Cup Granulated Sugar
  • 2 Sticks Butter cubed
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract

Equipment

  • Food Processor

Method
 

Lemon Cookie Dough
  1. Put flour, semolina, ground almonds, sugar, and lemon zest into a food processor and pulse to combine.
  2. Add butter and blitz until butter is spread throughout the mixture (should look like breadcrumbs)
  3. Add eggs, lemon juice, and vanilla extract and blitz until combined.
  4. Tip out mixture onto a prepped surface and gently need. If the mixture is too wet, add more flour. If the mixture is too dry, add more lemon juice.
  5. Set dough aside.
Chocolate Cookie Dough
  1. Blitz chocolate chips in the food processor.
  2. Add flour, almond flour, cocoa powder, and sugar. Pulse to combine.
  3. Add butter and blitz until butter is spread throughout the mixture (should look like breadcrumbs)
  4. Add eggs and vanilla extract, blitz until combine.
  5. Tip out mixture onto a prepped surface and gently need. If the mixture is too wet, add more flour. If the mixture is too dry, add milk.
Shaping
  1. Roll out each dough to a 5mm thickness.
  2. Cut out board hexes and arrange on lined baking sheet. For circular pieces, roll pieces into a ball and flatten with an even surface.
  3. Bake for 16-20 minutes or until they just starts to turn golden brown on the edges. Let cool completely before decorating.
Decorating
  1. Separate royal icing (see notes) into different bowls and color as desired.
  2. Transfer each color into a separate small piping bag
  3. Pipe icing onto cookies as desired.

Notes

Check out my recipe for royal icing here.