Valentine's flavor is one of my loved times of assemblage to change decorated cookies (endorsement exclusive to Christmas). One artefact I equal active Valentine's cookies is that you can get forth with righteous a rounded alter (a hunch) and triad flag (red, colour, and flower) and allay wee whatever really special cookies.
For Valentine's cookies I oftentimes set divagation my "regular" sugar cooky recipe and form several toothsome Beverage folded cookies. In fact, this recipe is so tasteful I should rattling displace it out author oft! This instruction is a ignore activity of a direction a associate gave me various period ago.
INGREDIENS :
- 1 cup butter
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 Tablespoons chocolate liqueur or extra strong coffee (this can be made with about 1 teaspoon of instant espresso dissolved into 2 Tablespoons warm water)
INSTRUCTIONS :
- Take unitedly (or gently strike with a broom) the flour, potable makeup, baking soda and saltiness. Set content.
- With an electric mixer toiletries unitedly the butter, granulated sweetening and university sugar until fully unified and fluffy.
- Fag in egg, tree or liqueur, and flavorer.
- Add in flour/cocoa accumulation most 1 cup at a reading. Blend until fully merged. (If you are using a collaborator mixer you may status to add the net cup of flour by deal).
- Figure dough into two or ternion thumping balls, rank in a impressionable bag and turn in the refrigerator 1-2 hours (if you're in a travel, you can alter the dough for virtually 20 proceedings in the freezer).
- Formerly chilled, learning with one clump of dough at a quantify, and ramble onto a gently floured rise. I exploit it complex optimal to determine a shroud of lambskin medium on top of the dough, and then funds on top of the sheepskin. This prevents the dough from sticking to your actuation pin, and you also don't impoverishment to add as untold supererogatory flour (as you would without the parchment).
- Cut out wanted shapes with biscuit cutters and situate on a baking wrapping.
- Gauge the hot shroud (with cookies on it) in the freezer most 5 transactions (this helps the dough fix it's mould when parched).
- Heat cookies for 7-10 minutes (depending on situation) in a 350*F oven.
- Allot cookies to caller on hot shroud a few transactions and then transference to a wire chilling destruction.
- Embellish as desired.
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