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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!
Print Recipe
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Decorating Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Course Dessert

Equipment

  • Food Processor

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

Instructions
 

Lemon Cookie Dough

  • Put flour, semolina, ground almonds, sugar, and lemon zest into a food processor and pulse to combine.
  • Add butter and blitz until butter is spread throughout the mixture (should look like breadcrumbs)
  • Add eggs, lemon juice, and vanilla extract and blitz until combined.
  • 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.
  • Set dough aside.

Chocolate Cookie Dough

  • Blitz chocolate chips in the food processor.
  • Add flour, almond flour, cocoa powder, and sugar. Pulse to combine.
  • Add butter and blitz until butter is spread throughout the mixture (should look like breadcrumbs)
  • Add eggs and vanilla extract, blitz until combine.
  • 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

  • Roll out each dough to a 5mm thickness.
  • Cut out board hexes and arrange on lined baking sheet. For circular pieces, roll pieces into a ball and flatten with an even surface.
  • Bake for 16-20 minutes or until they just starts to turn golden brown on the edges. Let cool completely before decorating.

Decorating

  • Separate royal icing (see notes) into different bowls and color as desired.
  • Transfer each color into a separate small piping bag
  • Pipe icing onto cookies as desired.

Notes

Check out my recipe for royal icing here.
Keyword Chocolate, cookies, lemons, sugar cookies