Gift Box Cookies recipe: Preparing Gift Box Cookies is easy! Use a hand mixer and mix the butter with the sugar in a bowl. Add the egg and mix until incorporated.

Divide the mixture in two and set them in two separate bowls.

Add a cup of flour to one of the bowls and form a dough ball.

Add a cup of flour and 1/2 oz cocoa to the other bowl, then form another dough ball.

Wrap both dough balls in plastic and refrigerate them for an hour.

Halve the white dough and roll half of it 1/4 inch thick with a rolling pin.

Divide the cocoa dough in 3 parts. Roll one of the parts with a rolling pin and place it on the flat white dough.

Set aside a small bit of white dough. Roll the rest of the white dough and place it on the cocoa dough. When you’re ready, cut it lengthwise in narrow strips.

Roll the other part of the cocoa dough and cut a stripe with equal height as the striped logs.

Place this cocoa stripe in between two striped logs and push them a little to stay in place. The striped logs should stand on their edges, as the picture shows.

Cut the logs in smaller pieces.

Cut small triangles from the remaining cocoa dough, and place them on top of the gift box cookies to make bows. Form small balls from the remaining white dough, and place them in the center of the bow.

Bake the cookies for 15 minutes at 350ºF in a preheated oven.

Good luck in making the Gift Box Cookies! Enjoy!

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