How to Make Valentine’s Day Cookie Hearts
Yield: 24 cookie sandwiches
Preparation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
Ingredients needed to make Valentine’s Day Cookie Hearts:
- 19’’x13’’ sponge cake of your favorite flavor
- Rolled sugar cookies (recipe below)
- 16 oz faux royal frosting (recipe below)
- Sprinkles, as required
- Candy melts, as required
For the sugar cookies:
- 5 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 ½ cups butter, softened
- 4 eggs
For the frosting:
- 3 tbsp light corn syrup
- 4 cups icing sugar
- 1tsp lemon extract
- 3 tbsp milk
- Food coloring
Cooking instructions for Valentine’s Day Cookie Hearts:
- For the cookies, warm up your oven to 400 degrees F.
- Stir the baking powder and a dash of salt into the flour and sift the mixture into a medium bowl; set aside.
- Whisk a mixture of sugar and cream together with an electric mixer until it turns light and fluffy.
- Crack the eggs into it, beating them into the mixture after every addition, until all of them are incorporated into the mixture.
- Stir in the vanilla and fold in the dry mixture gradually until they blend together to form a smooth dough.
- Wrap it up in a plastic sheet and leave it in the fridge for a couple of hours to chill.
- Flatten it out on a lightly-floured surface into a thin rectangle, using a rolling pin, and carve out small cookies, using heart-shaped cookie cutters.
- Bake the cookies in the oven for about 10-12 minutes or until it browns along the edges.
- Cool them on a wire rack while you start preparing the frosting.
- For the frosting, whisk the icing sugar into the milk until they blend into a smooth mixture.
- Stir in the corn syrup, along with a splash of lemon extract and beat them into a smooth and shiny frosting.
- Whisk in few drops of food coloring and set aside.
- Crumble the cake with your hand into fine bits and fold it into the frosting until well combined
- Arrange half of the cookies on a baking sheet with their bottom side facing up and spread a couple of tbsp cake filling across each cookie.
- Place the other cookie on top, with its bottom side facing down and press it slightly.
- Leave the cookie sandwiches in the fridge for about half an hour to chill and set.
- Take them out of the fridge and dip them into molten candy melts and fill up the gaps with the help of a spoon.
- Shake off excess candy and spread the sprinkles on top.
- Arrange the cookie sandwiches on a lined baking sheet and set aside until they are set.
- Serve them to your sweetheart and win her heart on this Valentine’s Day.
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