Chocolate Heart Cookies
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| Chocolate Heart Cookies |
For Valentine's Day, I baked Chocolate Heart Cookies for
hubby and me. This recipe is the first chocolate sugar cookie recipe I have made. I searched on the web for months before deciding on Sweetopia's
recipe. The rich chocolate taste of the cookie and chewy texture was
delightful. The chocolate dough was easy to work using rolling pin technique to roll out the dough in
between two sheets of parchment paper. I used 4 different heart cutters for my shapes and rolled a quarter of the dough at a time keeping the rest in the fridge to keep it cool.
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| Large Chocolate Heart Cookies |
Here is the link to the chocolate sugar cookie recipe: http://sweetopia.net/2013/12/chocolate-sugar-cookie-recipe-cut-out-cookies/.
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| Large and tiny Chocolate Heart Cookies |
Chocolate Sugar Cookie
Ingredients
2 cups (4 sticks) Unsalted Butter softened
2 cups Sugar
2 Extra Large Eggs
3 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
4 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 ½ cups Cocoa Powder
1 teaspoon Salt
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| Chocolate Heart Cookies all stacked up. |
Directions
Sift Flour, Cocoa Powder and Salt in large bowl and combine
with spatula; put aside.
Cut each stick of butter into 8 pieces.
Cream the Butter and Sugar together in a bowl of an electric
mixer with paddle attachment on low to medium speed. Mix until incorporated,
about 1 minute.
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| 4 heart cutters I used |
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| Different Wilton sprinkles, pearls, and sugars I used on the cookies |
Scrape sides of bowl with spatula and mix again for 5-10 seconds more.
Add Eggs one at a time. Scrape down bowl with spatula and
mix again for another 10 seconds.
Add Vanilla and mix for 1 minute.
Slowly add Flour mixture to bowl and mix on low speed for 1
minute. When Dough clumps around paddle attachment, it is ready.
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| Chocolate Hearts Cookies cooled and ready for decorating |
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| Chocolate Heart Cookies close-up |
Use rolling pin and roll out Dough between 2 pieces of
parchment paper. Cover Dough with plastic wrap and cool in fridge for 1-2
hours.
Take one quarter of Dough, and roll out further and cut out desired heart shapes. Repeat rolling the Dough and cutting shapes until you have used it all.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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| More close-ups of Chocolate Heart Cookies |
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| Close-up of some of the Chocolate Heart cookies |
Place cookie shapes on parchment lined baking sheet and
space apart 2 inches.
Bake cookies for 8-12 minutes, or until center of cookie no
longer looks wet. My cookies baked in 10 minutes.
Let cookies cool in baking sheet for 10 minutes and then
transfer to wire rack to cool completely for 1 hour.
Let cookie sheets cool completely before you bake again. Repeat
until you have baked all the cookies.
Once cookies have cooled, decorate as desired.
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| Chocolate Heart Cookies close-up pic |
Royal Icing
Go to Joy of Baking: http://www.joyofbaking.com/RoyalIcing.html
for the tutorial and recipe for royal icing with Egg Whites or Meringue
Powder. I prefer the Egg Whites recipe and think the other is quite bland.
Use Royal Icing immediately or transfer to airtight
containers as it hardens when exposed to air.
I tinted some of the icing to get pink and transferred to
Squeeze Bottles using a funnel to prevent it from spilling. When you are not
using the bottles keep the tip covered. If the icing hardens, spray a little
bit of water and shake bottle well holding the tip with your finger.
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| Tiny and Large Chocolate Heart Cookies close-up |
Do the borders first and let them dry completely 2-6 hours
before filling the cookie. If you add sprinkles over the filled icing do it
while it is wet.
Let the cookies dry overnight. I place them in cookie sheets
and leave them uncovered for 4-5 hours and then cover with plastic wrap overnight to
complete drying.
Enjoy!
-Sophia/Two Frys
