Chili Cinnamon Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream shortening and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until easy to handle., On a lightly floured surface, roll and pat out dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-1/2-in. chili pepper shaped cookies cutter. , Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 325° for 6-8 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool., In a small bowl, beat the butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk until frosting reaches desired consistency. Tint 1/3 cup green; set aside. Tint remaining frosting red. Frost "peppers" red and "stems" green; sprinkle with matching sugar.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
• Heat currants and coffee liqueur in a saucepan over low heat until it begins to simmer, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
• Combine unsweetened chocolate, bittersweet chocolate, and butter in bowl. Place bowl on top of a saucepan filled with 1-inch of water set over low heat. Stir chocolate mixture occasionally until melted, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
• Mix flour, black pepper, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper in large bowl and set aside.
• Whisk sugar and eggs in a small bowl until light, fluffy, and pale yellow, about 5 minutes. Slowly whisk in vanilla and melted chocolate mixture.
• Fold flour mixture into sugar and chocolate mixture until combined.
• Stir in dark chocolate chips and liqueur-soaked currants.
• Drop spoonfuls of cookie dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are almost set, about 12 minutes.
• Remove from the oven and leave on baking sheets to cool, 5 minutes.
• Transfer to cooling rack and allow to finish cooling, 5 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine cookie mix, cocoa, orange zest, cinnamon and cayenne. Beat in butter, egg, vanilla and, if desired, Triple Sec., Mix sugar and cinnamon. Roll dough into 1-in. balls; roll in sugar mixture. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake until set, 8-10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.

Steps:

• Beat the butter, muscovado sugar, caster sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon together with an electric whisk for 2-3 mins until well-combined. Add the egg, flour, baking powder and raisins, if using, and continue to beat until the mixture becomes a uniform dough. Roll tablespoons of the dough into balls between the palms your hands (you should have 12-15). Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hrs until firm, or overnight. The unbaked dough balls will keep in an airtight container in the freezer for up to three months (see tip, below).
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/ gas 4 and line two large baking trays with baking parchment. Place the dough balls 3-4cm apart on the prepared baking trays to allow the mixture to spread without touching. Bake for 10-12 mins until lightly golden at the edges but still soft and gooey in the centre. Leave to cool completely on the baking trays.
• Mix the icing sugar with the remaining cinnamon, then dust over the cookies. Will keep in an airtight container for up to five days.

Steps:

• If you are using dried chili crunch them as fine as possible and measure then 1/2 teaspoon.
• In the bowl of your food processor add the first six ingredients.
• Heat a pan over medium high heat and roast the grounded almonds until golden. Immediately remove from heat and add to the other ingredients.
• Cut butter into pieces and add to flour mixture. Add egg yolk.
• Mix in your food processor until dough is formed. Take dough out of the bowl, knead once or twice and then form a roll (this will make it easier to divide dough later).
• Wrap dough roll into cling film a put it into fridge for 30 minutes. Line out baking tray(s) with parchment paper.
• Take dough out of the fridge and cut roll into 10 slices. Cut each slice into 4 pieces. You should now have 40 little dough pieces.
• Roll each pice into a roll of about 3 to 4 inches in lenght. The middle of each roll should be a bit thicker and let the roll taper off towards the ends. Put the rolls onto the baking tray forming a "C" (half-moon shape).
• Put the baking tray(s) in a cold place for about 30 to 60 minutes.
• Meanwhile preheat oven (390 F, 200 C).
• Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. Let them cool completely on a cooling rack. Dust them with (unsweetened) cacao powder.
• NOTE: cooking time is given for one baking tray. Time to make includes 60 minutes for cooling the dough.
• NOTE: I put the cookies on the baking tray into the fridge for 30 minutes. It is important to keep the formed cookies for 30 minutes in a cold place. The butter in the cookies has to be cooled completely.
• NOTE: these cookies are very spicy. If you don't like them spicy reduce the amount of cayenne pepper / dried chili pepper.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Mix in egg and molasses, blending well.
• Mix flour, baking soda and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture, mixing well.
• Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.