Adorn a batch of heart-shaped cookies alongside candy melts together with sprinkles to practise these pretty niggling Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies. They're a perfect elementary process to portion the Valentine love!
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Happy February, everyone! It's that fourth dimension of twelvemonth to plough our attending to sharing the Valentine love. But when it comes to Valentine treats for me, I precisely don't teach into elaborate desserts or super-fancy handmade treats.
No, I'm a elementary treats sort of girl.
And I don't experience elementary treats present together with portion my honey whatever less than the to a greater extent than grande ones do! So when I shared my Chocolate Sugar Cookies before this week, I was inspired to accept them i elementary stride farther to practise precisely such an slow niggling Valentine's Day treat.
With a niggling dip inwards white chocolate or colored candy melts together with a niggling touching on of sprinkles, heart-shaped chocolate saccharide cookies are transformed from plain-Jane cookies into a pretty share-the-love Valentine treat.
These Valentine chocolate saccharide cookies guide hold all the same deliciousness, wonderful texture, together with tenderness of classic master saccharide cookies, all piece incorporating my favorite season chocolate.
By merely swapping out about of the flour for unsweetened cocoa pulverization inwards a traditional saccharide cookie recipe, you lot tin shipping away whip upward a batch of this super tasty chocolate version.
To brand them perfect for Valentine's Day, cutting pump shapes from the rolled dough. I similar to utilisation a few unlike sizes of heart-shaped cookie cutters because I intend it looks pretty to vary the cookie sizes. I guide hold together with utilisation this Wilton nested pump cookie cutter set you tin shipping away discovery on Amazon (affiliate links).
Once the cookies are baked together with cooled, it's quick together with slow to dip one-half of each cookie inwards ruddy or white candy melts together with add together a pinch of pretty sprinkles. I used a combination of sugar sprinkles together with white nonpareils sprinkles (affiliate links). The white nonpareils are my favorite! ... I become through a lot of these inwards my baking together with decorating adventures.
The candy melt coating sets upward quite quickly, but the procedure tin shipping away live sped upward to live fifty-fifty quicker past times popping the dipped cookies inwards the fridge for virtually 10 minutes.
And that's all it takes to whip upward these cute niggling Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies to portion the Valentine love. Once the cookies are baked, it's quick, easy, together with simple. Just the means I similar to brand my treats!
Ingredients
- 3/4 c. unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 c. granulated saccharide
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
- 3/4 c. unsweetened baking cocoa pulverization
- 1 tsp. baking pulverization
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 12 oz. candy melts (red, pink, or white)*
- 1/2 tsp. canola or vegetable stone oil
- assorted red, white, pink, and/or regal sprinkles
- In a mixing bowl, shell softened butter for virtually thirty seconds alongside an electrical mixer at medium speed. Add saccharide together with shell on medium speed until fluffy, virtually 1 minute. Add egg together with vanilla extract; shell until good combined, scraping downwards the sides of the bowl equally needed.
- In a divide bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, together with salt. With the mixer on depression speed, gradually add together flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating until precisely combined.
- Divide dough into ii equal parts together with utilisation your hands to shape each business office into a disc. Working alongside i disc at a time, house on a canvas of parchment newspaper together with curlicue to 1/4-inch thickness; dust your move surface together with rolling pivot alongside cocoa pulverization instead of flour to avoid white spots on your chocolate cookies. Carefully slide parchment newspaper {with rolled dough on it}onto a baking sheet. On about other slice of parchment paper, curlicue the 2nd dough disc to 1/4-inch thickness. Carefully slide parchment newspaper {with rolled dough on it} on move past times of the start rolled dough, keeping the slice of parchment newspaper betwixt the doughs. Cover loosely alongside plastic wind together with refrigerate for 1 hour. {NOTES: It may live tempting to skip the chilling time, but chilling the dough is essential to keeping the cookies from spreading piece baking. Also, you lot could for certain chill the dough start together with THEN curlicue it out ... but I discovery it easier to curlicue start piece the dough is pliable together with and then chill.}
- Use pump shaped cookie cutters to cutting the dough into shapes. Transfer cutting hearts to a baking canvas alongside a pocket-size spatula. Re-roll the remaining dough scraps together with move on to cutting cookies until all the dough is used.
- Bake cookies at 350℉ for 8 minutes. The cookies volition notwithstanding appear soft. Allow to cool on the baking canvas for v minutes, together with then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Place candy melts together with stone oil inwards a pocket-size microwaveable bowl. Heat at 50 per centum ability for 1 together with a one-half minutes. Remove from the microwave together with stir. If non completely shine together with melted, furnish to the microwave together with move on heating at 50 per centum ability for thirty to 45 seconds at a fourth dimension until melted, stirring subsequently every interval. {OR, house candy melts together with stone oil inwards the move past times of a double boiler over simmering water. Heat, stirring frequently, until completely melted together with smooth.}
- One at a time, dip one-half of each cooled cookie inwards the candy melt coating. Gently milk shiver the cookie a duet of times to allow excess coating to drip off. Place dipped cookie on a baking canvas lined alongside parchment or waxed newspaper together with straight off decorate alongside sprinkles.
- Allow cookies to stand upward until candy melt coating is completely set. Store inwards an airtight container at room temperature.
Makes virtually 36 cookies when 2-inch cookie cutters are used. Yield volition depend on size together with shape of cookie cutters used.
* You could equally good utilisation white almond bark coating instead of candy melts.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
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