Chocolate Valentine Snog Cookies

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.

adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies

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 honey of these tasty piddling 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 ever been about to a greater extent than than cooking, baking, together with writing almost it.  It's besides an chance to produce something I honey ... laid upward & bake ... that I would produce no thing what ... together with plough it into an chance to hand dorsum to the community.  Even if it's inward exactly a minor 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 i mortal ... it's the grouping of children inward residence at a identify exactly 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 costless life.  And inward together with hence doing, at whatever given fourth dimension they are typically providing shelter to almost xx children.

I am happy to portion this tiny token of honey amongst these children.

adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies

For this month's treat, I was specifically asked to brand Valentine cookies.  No occupation at that topographic point ... I was definitely game for that!

So I set 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 whatever day.

I exactly honey how fun they expect inward a grouping amongst all the dissimilar sprinkles.

I got myself laid upward amongst unwrapped Hershey Hugs together with Kisses together with an assortment of pretty Valentine sprinkles.

Nice big, multi-colored sprinkles operate particularly well.

adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies

Next, I whipped upward some tasty chocolate cookie dough, rolled the dough into balls, together with coated each ball completely inward the fun sprinkles.

adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies

Then I baked the cookies upward together with popped a Kiss (or a Hug ... but the Kisses operate better) inward the oculus of each one, exactly similar you lot would for classic peanut butter flower cookies.

adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies

So cute!

I exactly honey how fun they expect inward a grouping amongst all the dissimilar sprinkles.

adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies

Now, Hugs gustatory modality exactly bang-up inward these cookies, but they don't produce together with hence bang-up inward execution.

They tend to melt into piddling pools of zebra stripes instead of staying intact similar the Kisses do.  See?

adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies

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 wishing you lot together with those inward your pump the blessings of many sugariness treats.  Happy Valentine's Day!  

And, ... portion the love.

adorned Valentine version of classic peanut butter flower cookies Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies
Thank you lot for stopping yesteryear . We'd honey to convey you lot dorsum soon!



Chocolate Valentine Kiss Cookies
Source:  Concept inspired yesteryear classic peanut butter flower cookies; chocolate dough adapted from America's Test Kitchen
(Printable recipe)
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 30 Hershey Kisses or Hugs candies, unwrapped
Directions
  1. Combine flour, cocoa, together with salt; laid aside.
  2. With an electrical mixer on medium-high speed, shell butter together with saccharide until lite together with fluffy, almost 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.
  3. Wrap dough inward plastic twine together with refrigerate until firm, 1 hour.
  4. Roll chilled dough into 1-inch balls together with curl each ball inward sprinkles, completely roofing the dough ball amongst sprinkles. Place balls almost ii inches apart on a baking sheet. With your thumb, gently press downwards into the oculus of each ball exactly slightly to brand a real minor indentation. Chill the baking canvas of dough balls inward the fridge for 10 to xv minutes.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees until set, almost 12 minutes.
  6. After removing cookies from the oven, at nowadays identify a Hershey Kiss or Hug inward the oculus of each cookie. Let cookies cool on the baking canvas for almost three minutes, take away to a cooling rack to cool.
Makes around 25 to xxx cookies.

Enjoy!


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