Adorn a batch of heart-shaped cookies alongside candy melts as well as sprinkles to exercise these pretty lilliputian Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies. They're a perfect uncomplicated process to percentage the Valentine love!
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 exactly don't teach into elaborate desserts or super-fancy handmade treats.
No, I'm a uncomplicated treats sort of girl.
And I don't experience uncomplicated treats demo as well as percentage 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 have got them i uncomplicated stride farther to exercise exactly such an slowly lilliputian Valentine's Day treat.
With a lilliputian dip inwards white chocolate or colored candy melts as well as a lilliputian impact 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 have got all the same deliciousness, wonderful texture, as well as tenderness of classic master copy saccharide cookies, all piece incorporating my favorite season chocolate.
By only swapping out to a greater extent than or less of the flour for unsweetened cocoa pulverization inwards a traditional saccharide cookie recipe, yous tin whip upwards a batch of this super tasty chocolate version.
To brand them perfect for Valentine's Day, cutting take in shapes from the rolled dough. I similar to work a few dissimilar sizes of heart-shaped cookie cutters because I mean value it looks pretty to vary the cookie sizes. I have got as well as work this Wilton nested take in cookie cutter set you tin uncovering on Amazon (affiliate links).
Once the cookies are baked as well as cooled, it's quick as well as slowly to dip one-half of each cookie inwards cerise or white candy melts as well as add together a pinch of pretty sprinkles. I used a combination of sugar sprinkles as well as white nonpareils sprinkles (affiliate links). The white nonpareils are my favorite! ... I teach through a lot of these inwards my baking as well as decorating adventures.
The candy melt coating sets upwards quite quickly, but the procedure tin live sped upwards to live fifty-fifty quicker past times popping the dipped cookies inwards the fridge for close 10 minutes.
And that's all it takes to whip upwards these cute lilliputian Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies to percentage the Valentine love. Once the cookies are baked, it's quick, easy, as well as simple. Just the agency 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 majestic sprinkles
- In a mixing bowl, trounce softened butter for close thirty seconds alongside an electrical mixer at medium speed. Add saccharide as well as trounce on medium speed until fluffy, close 1 minute. Add egg as well as vanilla extract; trounce until good combined, scraping downwards the sides of the bowl every bit needed.
- In a split upwards bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, as well as salt. With the mixer on depression speed, gradually add together flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating until exactly combined.
- Divide dough into ii equal parts as well as work your hands to cast each role into a disc. Working alongside i disc at a time, house on a canvass of parchment newspaper as well as gyre to 1/4-inch thickness; dust your travel surface as well as 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 to a greater extent than or less other slice of parchment paper, gyre the 2d dough disc to 1/4-inch thickness. Carefully slide parchment newspaper {with rolled dough on it} on exceed of the get-go rolled dough, keeping the slice of parchment newspaper betwixt the doughs. Cover loosely alongside plastic twine as well as 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, yous could sure enough chill the dough get-go as well as THEN gyre it out ... but I uncovering it easier to gyre get-go piece the dough is pliable as well as and then chill.}
- Use take in shaped cookie cutters to cutting the dough into shapes. Transfer cutting hearts to a baking canvass alongside a modest spatula. Re-roll the remaining dough scraps as well as travel on to cutting cookies until all the dough is used.
- Bake cookies at 350℉ for 8 minutes. The cookies volition nonetheless appear soft. Allow to cool on the baking canvass for five minutes, as well as then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Place candy melts as well as stone oil inwards a modest microwaveable bowl. Heat at 50 per centum ability for 1 as well as a one-half minutes. Remove from the microwave as well as stir. If non completely smoothen as well as melted, provide to the microwave as well as travel on heating at 50 per centum ability for thirty to 45 seconds at a fourth dimension until melted, stirring afterwards every interval. {OR, house candy melts as well as stone oil inwards the exceed of a double boiler over simmering water. Heat, stirring frequently, until completely melted as well as smooth.}
- One at a time, dip one-half of each cooled cookie inwards the candy melt coating. Gently milkshake the cookie a distich of times to allow excess coating to drip off. Place dipped cookie on a baking canvass lined alongside parchment or waxed newspaper as well as straight off decorate alongside sprinkles.
- Allow cookies to stand upwards until candy melt coating is completely set. Store inwards an airtight container at room temperature.
Makes close 36 cookies when 2-inch cookie cutters are used. Yield volition depend on size as well as shape of cookie cutters used.
* You could besides work white almond bark coating instead of candy melts.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
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