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You Can Write On These Chalkboard Cookies With Edible Chalk

This article is written by a student writer from the Spoon University at Duke chapter.

Have you ever been sitting in class, watching your teacher scribble something unreadable on the blackboard, and thought, “Dang, I wish I could eat that!”? Yup… me neither. But, all of your dreams (that you didn’t even know you had) are about to come true! In just a few short hours, instead of using that lame lined paper to finish your math homework, you could be using these ~rad~ chalkboard cookies! SO LET’S GET COOKIN’. You have work to do!

Chalkboard Cookies

Difficulty:BeginnerPrep time:8 hours Cook time: 15 minutesTotal time:8 hours 15 minutesServings:24 servings

Ingredients

Instructions

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    Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix together flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and baking powder together in a large bowl.

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    In another large bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and sour cream until smooth.

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    Mix together the wet and dry ingredients until dough is formed.

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    Wrap the dough in cling wrap and chill for 3 hours. Once chilled, roll out and cut into 2 inch shapes. Bake cookies for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.

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    Now for the icing! In a bowl, mix sugar, egg whites, cocoa and activated charcoal (fancaaay), then beat with a whisk or hand mixer for 8 to 10 minutes.

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    Fill a piping bag or plastic bag with blackboard icing. Cut the tip of the bag off to allow for easy icing. Ice the cookies and let them sit for 2 hours until solid.

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    While icing is hardening, mix the bag of white chocolate chips with the shortening. Microwave for 15 second intervals, stirring at each interval, for a total of 1 minute and 30 seconds or until smooth.

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    Next, place a plastic bag in a cup, and fill with white chocolate mixture. Seal and cut the tip of one side of the bag.

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    Cut each straws in half. With your bag of white chocolate, fill each straw and freeze for 3 hours until hard.

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    When the chalk is firm, squeeze each pieces out of half straws. Set aside.

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    Finally, IT’S COLORING TIME! Check out that chalkboard cookie masterpiece!