Sugar Cookies for Valentine’s Day
Chocolate Sugar Cookie Recipe
What you’ll get as a result of this recipe are heart shaped cookies that are pleasantly coated with gorgeous royal icing and then lightly tasting with chocolate. These are totally suitable for Valentine’s Day regardless if as a Valentine surprise gift or as a crunchy treat following the candlelight dinner.
Ingredients:
two 3/4 cups (355 grams) all purpose flour, 3/4 cup (75 grams) unsweetened Dutch processed cocoa powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon (4 grams)baking powder, 1 cup (227 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature, 1 3/4 cups (350 grams) granulated white sugar, 2 large eggs, two teaspoons pure vanilla extract,
Steps in Making:
In any big container, mix the dry ingredients simultaneously: flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder.
In another mixing bowl or in the bowl of your electric mixer, whisk butter together with sugar until mixture is smooth and even for about 3 to 4 minutes. You could also make use of a hand mixer in whipping the mixture. Add the eggs one at a time and then whip extensively just after every addition. Mix in vanilla extract and then blend right until totally mixed up. Gradually dispense the flour mixture into this mixture and then whisk right up until a good dough is created.
Form the dough into a ball, and after that break into halves. Secure each part in a plastic bag/wrap. Store the dough inside refrigerator for approximately an hour or until they are thick enough to knead.
While waiting, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and then put rack within the center of the oven. Prepare two baking sheets by simply covering them with parchment paper.
Obtain one half of the refrigerated, dense dough from the fridge and then roll it out over a evenly floured surface. Roll and Knead dough, molding it into 1/4 inch (1 cm) thick. Keep on rotating the dough as you roll and being sure that it does not adhere to the counter. With a lightly floured cookie cutter, form dough into multiple figures of your preference and set cut down cookies in the prepared baking sheets. Put baking sheets inside the refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes in order to cool the unbaked cookie dough. This will prevent the cookies from scattering as well as wasting their figures while they’re being baked in the oven.
Suggestion: If you don’t plan on embellishing the baked sugar cookies, you could dust the unbaked cookies with crystal or sparkling sugar.
Obtain the uncooked cookies from the fridge and bake them inside the pre-heated oven for around 10 -12 minutes (depending on size) or until their corners are hard enough. Remove newly-baked cookies from your oven and allow them to cool in baking sheet for a couple of minutes. Relocate cookies from baking sheets into a wire rack for cooling thoroughly.
Note. The blogger who first published this recipe is a skilled baker who loves making sugar cookies for every occasion. She has a website all about sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day. Learn how to make these adorable sweet sugar cookies in this article. Or visit this website for additional more tips and recipes.
