These are soft cookies, they don’t have much sugar in the dough but with the icing they are just perfect.
Below are brief steps in pictures to make these yummy cookies:
First, prepare the dough then place it in between 2 sheets of parchment paper. Flatten the dough with a rolling pin.
Use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out the dough.
Place the cut out dough in a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake in a 350 °F preheated oven for about 10 minutes.
Once the cookies are cooled, dip the top in the icing and let completely set at room temperature.
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 23
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup melted butter
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 4 cups all purpose flour or less
Icing
- 4 cups or more powdered sugar
- ¼ cup vegetable or canola oil
- ¼ cup whole milk
- ¼ cup rose water
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- Food coloring of your choice(red, pink, purple used in this recipe)
Garnish
- Sprinkles (micro hearts)
- Valentine's mix decorating candy
Instructions
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In a bowl of a standing mixer, put the egg, sugar, vanilla, cocoa powder and whisk until smooth.
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Add in butter and whisk more.
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3- Add baking powder, cornstarch, salt and flour. For the flour add 1 cup at the time, you may need less than 4 cups. Mix to just combine or until the dough gets together and is soft.
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Lay a sheet of parchment paper on a working board and put the dough on top.
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Put another parchment paper sheet on top of the dough and flatten dough with a rolling pin to the desired thickness.
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Once the dough is evenly flattened, take out the top sheet of parchment paper and use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out the dough.
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Place heart shaped cookie dough in a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
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Bake in a 350 °F preheated oven for about 10 minutes.
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Let cool completely.
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While the cookies are cooling, prepare the icing by putting oil, milk and rose water in a large bowl and mix them together.
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Add to the wet ingredients, powdered sugar gradually while mixing constantly.
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Keep adding powdered sugar and mixing until obtain a thick smooth liquid. Add lemon juice and mix it well in the icing.
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Pour a small amount of icing in 3 separate bowls.
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Add a little bit of food coloring in each bowl(different colors).
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Mix the food coloring in each bowl.
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Dip the top of each heart shaped cookie in the bowl of icing.
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Put the iced cookies on a wire rack that is placed on top of a baking sheet to catch the excess icing. Let set for 1 to 2 minutes, then decorate with sprinkles and valentine’s mix decorating candy.
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Let completely set at room temperature.