- In order to make this Valentine treat, you'll need:
- 198g plain flour be sure you don't over measure
- 21g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 115g of unsalted butter, softened at room temperature.
- 150g light brown sugar or dark brown
- 50g granulated sugar
- Plain square dark chocolate bar
- 250g of icing/confectioner's sugar
- Two-three teaspoons of
- warm water
- Red food colouring
- Equipment needed:
- Free-standing/handheld mixer
- Knead mixing attachments
- Baking tray
- Grease proof paper
- Rolling Pin
- Heart cookie cutter
- Method to making this sweet treat:
-
Preheat oven to 180c/160 fan over/Gas Mark 4. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.
- Toss the flour,cocoa powder,baking powder and a pinch of salt together into a large bowl. Set aside.
- Using a free-standing or handheld mixer,beat
- the butter on high speed until creamy for about 1 minute.Scrape the sides and the bottom of the bowl as needed.
Switch the mixer to medium speed and beat in the brown and granulated sugar until combined.Beat in the egg, milk, and vanilla extract, scraping down the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed.
Once mixed, add the food coloring and beat
until combined. 
Once mixed, add the food coloring and beat until combined. Turn the
mixer off and pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Turn
the mixer on low and slowly beat until a very soft dough is formed. - Beat in more food coloring if you'd like the dough to be redder.
On low
speed, beat in the chocolate chips. The dough will be sticky. - Cover the dough tightly with aluminum foil or plastic wrap and chill for
at least 1 hour (and up to 4-5 days make sure you let the cookie
dough sit out at room temperature for about 45
minutes before baking if chilling for more than 1 day.). Chilling is mandatory.
Scoop 1.5 tablespoons of dough and mould into a bowl. Seeing as today's Valentine's Day, you might decide to mould the dough into hearts-this is optional. place nine balls on each sheet and bake each batch for 10-11 minutes.
Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
To decorate your cookies, first pour half of the measured icing sugar into a bowl. Pour two-three tablespoons of warm water and stir until icing is a thick consistency.
Seeing as this recipe is Valentine-themed, I wanted to decorate my cookies with homemade fondant icing hearts. I did this by pouring the rest of the icing sugar into a bowl. Then I poured a couple drops of Dr Oetker Red Gel Food Coloring before adding a tablespoon or two of warm water. From there, I began to stir and also add more icing sugar until icing sugar was doughy. I then kneaded the "dough" a couple of times before rolling out with a rolling pin and using a heart cookie cutter to cut out hearts.I stuck the hearts onto the cookies by blobbing small amounts of glaze icing at the back of the fondant hearts-they really looked romantic and just very cute and pretty! - Make someone's day by sharing these cookies this Valentine.
I hope you've enjoyed this week's special on BakingBoutique. Please comment and +1 today's recipe if you liked this week's blog post. - I hope you share Valentine's Day with someone special!
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- #sweetreats xxx
- Happy Valentine's Day... xxx
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