Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies a chocolate, sprinkle-adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies. So pretty, together with oh together with hence delicious.
It's almost Valentine's Day! So, convey you lot made some sugariness treats for your sweetie yet? I've whipped upward these totally adorable Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies. Aren't they cute?
But I convey a confession to brand ...
I didn't brand these for my sweetie.
No. I shared the beloved of these tasty lilliputian cookies amongst someone else. But it's okay, together with my sweetie is okay amongst it.
See, I convey a novel baking project.
A chocolate, sprinkle-adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies together with hence pretty, together with oh together with hence delicious.
For me has e'er been about to a greater extent than than cooking, baking, together with writing nigh it. It's too an chance to produce something I beloved ... fix & bake ... that I would produce no thing what ... together with plow it into an chance to range dorsum to the community. Even if it's inward exactly a small-scale way.
And together with hence I began this newest baking projection dorsum inward October, together with convey continued amongst a novel sugariness process each calendar month since.
Who is the recipient of my confections, you lot ask?
Well, it's non exactly 1 somebody ... it's the grouping of children inward residence at a house merely known every bit The Shelter, our local battered women's shelter. The Shelter strives to empower victims of domestic violence yesteryear providing emergency shelter, advocacy, together with back upward on their journeying to an abuse gratis life. And inward together with hence doing, at whatsoever given fourth dimension they are typically providing shelter to nigh xx children.
I am happy to part this tiny token of beloved amongst these children.
For this month's treat, I was specifically asked to brand Valentine cookies. No work in that place ... I was definitely game for that!
So I position on my thinking cap together with came upward amongst this sprinkle-covered adaptation of the classic peanut butter flower cookie. But amongst chocolate. Because inward my book, chocolate beats peanut butter whatsoever day.
I exactly beloved how fun they await inward a grouping amongst all the dissimilar sprinkles.
I got myself fix amongst unwrapped Hershey Hugs together with Kisses together with an assortment of pretty Valentine sprinkles.
Nice big, multi-colored sprinkles move peculiarly well.
Then I baked the cookies upward together with popped a Kiss (or a Hug ... but the Kisses move better) inward the middle of each one, exactly similar you lot would for classic peanut butter flower cookies.
So cute!
I exactly beloved how fun they await inward a grouping amongst all the dissimilar sprinkles.
They tend to melt into lilliputian pools of zebra stripes instead of staying intact similar the Kisses do. See?
Just wanted to brand you lot aware of the melting. You know, total disclosure together with all. I know I was a disappointed inward how they worked out.
Whatever your Valentine's plans, I want you lot together with those inward your pump the blessings of many sugariness treats. Happy Valentine's Day!
And, ... part the love.
Thank you lot for stopping yesteryear . We'd beloved to convey you lot dorsum soon!
Yield: about 25-30 cookies
Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 chocolate, sprinkle-adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies. So pretty, together with and hence delicious.
prep time: 1 H & thirty Mcook time: 12 Mtotal time: 1 H & 42 M
ingredients:
- 1 c. all-purpose flour
- 1/3 c. cocoa powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 8 T. (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 2/3 c. sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 T. milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3/4 to 1 c. assorted Valentine sprinkles
- 25 to thirty Hershey Kisses candies, unwrapped
instructions:
How to fix Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies
- Combine flour, cocoa, together with salt; laid aside.
- With an electrical mixer on medium-high speed, crunch butter together with saccharide until lite together with fluffy, nigh ii minutes. Add egg yolk, milk, together with vanilla; mix until incorporated. Reduce mixer speed to depression together with add together the flour mixture until exactly combined.
- Wrap dough inward plastic roll together with refrigerate until firm, 1 hour.
- Roll chilled dough into 1-inch balls together with ringlet each ball inward sprinkles, completely roofing the dough ball amongst sprinkles. Place balls nigh ii inches apart on a baking sheet. With your thumb, gently press downward into the middle of each ball exactly slightly to brand a rattling small-scale indentation. Chill the baking canvas of dough balls inward the fridge for 10 to xv minutes.
- Bake at 350 degrees until set, nigh 12 minutes.
- After removing cookies from the oven, directly house a Hershey Kiss inward the middle of each cookie. Let cookies cool on the baking canvas for nigh iii minutes, take to a cooling rack to cool.
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