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🍫 Red Velvet Heart Cookies – A Sweet Twist of Chocolate & Love! ❤️
These Red Velvet Heart Cookies are rich, buttery, and delicately chocolatey with a vibrant red hue. Perfectly paired with dark chocolate, sprinkles, and freeze-dried raspberries, they’re an irresistible treat for Valentine’s Day or any time you want to show a little extra love.
Ingredients
Cookie Dough:
- 350 g all-purpose flour
- 15 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 225 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 200 g granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1½ tsp red soft gel paste (optional)
Decoration:
- 40 g dark chocolate, tempered (see notes for tempering tips)
- Sprinkles
- Freeze-dried raspberries
Instructions
- Prepare Dry Ingredients:
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Whisk to combine.
- Cream Butter & Sugar:
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on medium-high until pale and fluffy. Scrape the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Add Wet Ingredients:
- Mix in the red coloring (if using) until the color is evenly distributed. Add the egg and vanilla extract, beating until fully incorporated.
- Combine Dry & Wet Mixtures:
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture, mixing on the lowest speed until just combined. Scrape down the sides as needed.
- Chill Dough:
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap, shaping it into a disk, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat Oven & Prepare Baking Sheet:
- Preheat oven to 180°C (355°F) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll & Cut Dough:
- Roll dough between two pieces of parchment paper (or plastic wrap on top) to ¼ inch (½ cm) thickness. Cut out shapes with a heart-shaped cookie cutter. Transfer cookies to the prepared baking sheet using an offset spatula.
- Bake:
- For slightly spread cookies, bake immediately for 11-13 minutes on the middle rack.
- For no-spread cookies, freeze the tray with cut cookies for 15 minutes before baking.
- Cool & Decorate:
- Allow cookies to cool completely on a cooling rack. Decorate with tempered dark chocolate, sprinkles, and freeze-dried raspberries.