Chocolate Mosaic Tree Cookies

These Mosaic Tree Cookies are a fun Tu B’shvat activity.

You know you’re barking up the right tree when it’s a mosaic of chocolate!

A creative treat to make and eat with its layers of texture and flavor.

You can make mosaic cookies in any shape and colors.

You will need:

• • your favorite sugar cookie recipe

• • green chocolate

• • dark chocolate

• • tree cookie cutter 

Directions:

1. 1. Roll out the dough.
   2. Use a cookie cutter to cut out a tree shape.
   3. Bake cookies.

1. For a large cookie:

1. 1. Draw a tree on a paper.
   2. Roll out dough on a piece of parchment paper.
   3. Place the cut out on the dough and use a knife to cut out the tree.
   4. Remove the scraps from the parchment paper.
   5. Place the parchment on a cookie sheet and bake.                                                   

1. Mosaic pieces:

1. Melt the chocolate. It is especially important to melt the green chocolate very slowly, in twenty second increments, mixing well in between. If the chocolate gets too hot, it becomes hard and very hard to work with.
2. Once the chocolate is melted, spread a thin layer of each chocolate on a separate piece of parchment paper
3. Allow to dry and then break into small mosaic like pieces.
4. Cover the bark with some of the dark melted chocolate and then decorate with the mosaic pieces.
5. Repeat with the top of the tree, using the green chocolate.  Photography by Hudi Greenberger

          This article originally appeared in Family First