Chocolate Cookie Christmas Tree | Donna Hay

Ingredients

• 1 x quantity basic vanilla snap dough (see ingredients below)
• ¼ cup (25g) Dutch cocoa, sifted
• icing (confectioner’s) sugar, for dusting
• ½ cup (80g) icing (confectioner’s) sugar, sifted
• 2 teaspoons boiling water
• 125g unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup (110g) caster (superfine) sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1½ cups (225g) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted