Bon Bon Cookies

Do you like surprises? How about presents? I love presents, especially when they are a surprise. These cookies are like surprise presents. The cookie dough is light like tissue paper, and they have a little surprise inside. I used chocolate as my filling, because who doesn't love chocolate? But you could fill yours with nuts, fruit, etc.

What You Will Need:
Stand Mixer with Paddle Attachment
Small Scoop
Cookie Sheet(s) lined with Silicone Mat
Cooling Rack(s)

Ingredients:
Cookies
1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter, room temperature
3/4 cup Powdered Sugar
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 Tablespoon Pure Vanilla Extract
3/4 cup Soy Flour
1/4 cup Potato Starch
1/4 cup Tapioca Starch/Flour
2 Tablespoons Corn Starch
1 teaspoon Xanthum Gum
1/8 teaspoon Salt
Chocolate Chips, Nuts, etc. for Filling
Glaze
1 cup Powdered Sugar
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
For Chocolate Glaze: Add 1/8 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, melted & cooled
Mini Chocolate Chips, Chopped Nuts, Sprinkles, etc. for sprinkling on top (optional)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350° F.

In stand mixer with paddle attachment, mix together butter, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla until combined.

In a medium bowl, whisk together soy flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, corn starch, xanthum gum and salt.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until dough holds together.

Using small scoop (approximately 1 Tablespoon), scoop dough into the palm of your hand.

Use the tip of your finger to push a hole in the dough ball. Place the filling in the hole. (I used 4 semi-sweet chocolate chips.) Press the dough around the filling and roll into a ball.

Place the dough balls on a silicone mat lined cookie sheet.

Bake for 12-15 minutes until set, not brown.

Transfer to cooling racks, and let cool completely.

While cookies are cooling, mix all of the glaze ingredients in a small bowl.

Dip cooled cookies into glaze.

To make chocolate glaze, add melted and cooled chocolate to the glaze and mix well. (I made the vanilla glaze, dipped half the cookies, then mixed the chocolate into the glaze and dipped the remaining half of the cookies.)

After dipping the cookies in the chocolate glaze, I sprinkled mini chocolate chips on top.

Let glaze set before serving or storing.

"Don't save things for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion."
Celebrate life and all of your blessings every day.

~Sheryl