Chocolate Blackberry Cream Cookies!

Recipe of the Day!!!!

~from your cup of cakes~

Don't these look absolutely fabulous!

YUMMY

Chocolate Cookies:

1 box Devil’s Food Cake Mix

2 eggs

1/3 cup oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¼ cup powdered sugar

Blackberry Cream:

4 ounces cream cheese

¼ cup butter

2-3 tablespoons blackberry     puree, strained

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups powdered sugar

Blackberries to decorate

Directions:

1.     Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2.    Gently combine eggs, oil and vanilla extract.

3.    Sift (for easy mixing) in Devil’s Food Cake Mix and stir until combined.  Dough will be very firm.

4.    Make dough balls (about 1 ½ T in size) and then pat them out into disks ¾ thick.

5.    Cover the dough in powdered sugar and place on cookie sheets

6.   Bake for 7-10 minutes.

7.    Blackberry Cream: Beat all ingredients and adjust taste and consistency as needed.  (More powdered sugar to thicken, more purree or milk to loosen.)

8.   Pipe cream onto cooled cookies and top with fresh blackberries.