What could be more pleasant for a loved one than the food that you prepared for him with your own hands? Cute and very tasty cookies Hearts for Valentine's Day will tell without words, but very eloquently, about your warm feelings!
Preparing cookies in the form of hearts simply and quickly - in less than an hour you will have time to make a surprise for the holiday! The set of products is minimal, but it turns out a whole baking sheet of delicious crumbly shortbread, which melts in your mouth ...
You can serve cookies hearts on a platter for morning coffee or a romantic evening tea party, or you can pack them in a beautiful box and present them as a sweet gift! It will be nicer and more soulful than giving a purchased candy or cake. After all, everything you do in person is done with love! And keeps a positive energy, warm feelings and wishes of the donor. The recipient of a tasty surprise will surely feel your emotions ... and respond to them!
Ingredients for Valentine's Day Valentine Cookies
For test:
- 1 tbsp. flour (about 130 g);
- 100 g butter (i.e. half a pack);
- 1 tbsp. l Sahara.
For decoration:
- 50 g of chocolate (half a slab);
- 1-2 tbsp. l butter;
- nuts;
- confectionery dressing.
Cooking method for Valentine's shortbread “Hearts”:
Prepare the shortbread dough: sift the flour in a bowl, add sugar and softened butter, cut into pieces.
Grind ingredients by hand. First you have a baby. Keep kneading the dough, and the little one is blind in one ball. If the dough crumbles, add some soft butter. If, on the contrary, sticks to your hands, add a little flour. The dough is soft, does not crumble, but does not stick. Put the dough in the fridge for 15 minutes. In the meantime, you can click and clear the nuts for decoration. It will be delicious with any: walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts or cashews.
With the dough out of the refrigerator, lightly sprinkle the table and baking tray with flour. Roll out the dough into the cake from 0, 5 to 1 cm thick. Thin biscuits are baked faster and more crispy, and the thicker ones will be baked a little longer, but it will turn out crumbly.
Cut cookies from the dough into a cookie cutter in the shape of a heart and gently, since the cookies are very tender, we place them on a baking sheet. While you are making cookies, turn on the oven - let it warm to 200 ° C.
At this stage you can sprinkle cookies with cinnamon or vanilla sugar, if you do not want to make chocolate icing. It is necessary to mix in a saucer 1, 5-2 tbsp. l sugar and 1/4 tsp. cinnamon (or 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar), or sugar with chopped nuts, sprinkle each cookie and slightly press the sprinkling with your finger so as not to sprinkle. If you glaze cookies with chocolate - we bake just like that.
We bake cookies at 200-210 ° C for 20-25 minutes, taking into account the characteristics of your oven. The cookies should be dry, crumbly and slightly zolotitsya, but at the same time remain light. If the cookies are brown, it means they are a bit overdone. But this is nothing, now we will prepare the icing and dressing for decoration!
Chocolate break into pieces and put in a water bath. When melted, put a piece of soft butter (15-25 g) and mix. The butter will melt and you will get a smooth chocolate icing. Dip the cooled biscuits in it with the upper side - or apply the icing with a teaspoon.
If the icing is too thick, add some more butter to the chocolate. If liquid - you can bring to the desired consistency by adding cocoa powder.
While the frosting did not have time to harden, sprinkle cookies “Hearts” for Valentine’s Day with chopped nuts, colored confectionery dressing. To make the icing on the finished one quicker, put the cookies in the fridge. And when the decoration is “grabbed,” gently shift the heart cookies onto the dish. Now we make coffee, tea or cocoa, and a surprise for our beloved sweet teeth is ready!
Happy holiday to you! Love and be loved!
