Slice and Bake Valentine's Day Cookies
Valentine's Day Cookies time is here again, and they're a perfect edible gift. Check out this easy and cute recipe!
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsps baking powder
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pink and red gel food coloring
- ⅓ cup Rainbow sprinkles (about 1/3 cup)
Instructions
- Mix soft butter at room temperature with sugar until getting a cloud-like, fluffy mixture in a bowl. Then, keep mixing and add egg and vanilla extract.
- Sift the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl: baking powder and flour.
- Put the dry ingredients and the soft mixture in a bowl, and mix to get your cookie dough. Then, cut the dough in thirds. Color two parts of the dough with red gel food coloring, and knead until it's uniform. Make a single dough ball with the red-colored parts, and knead to get a single piece.
- Stretch the dough using a floured rolling pin until you approximately get a half-inch thick layer. Make dough hearts using a cookie cutter and then build a tower by piling them up.
- Use egg wash to brush the hearts to stick to each other. The heart tower will measure 5 inches. If you get any extra red dough, make some cookies with it!
- Wrap the heart's tower in plastic wrap and stick it in the fridge for 1 hour. Ten minutes before taking the hearts out of the refrigerator, cut uncolored dough into thin strips. Aim for strips that are longer than the tower of hearts.
- Using the dough strips, fill the heart spaces to build a tube of dough. Cover the extremes so that the hearts remain hidden. Then, shape into a proper cylinder rolling the cylinder on a clean surface. Now, wrap the cookie tube in plastic and stick it in the fridge for 2 hours.
- Take the cookie tube out of the fridge and brush it with egg wash. Then, roll the cookie dough onto a bed of sprinkles. Fill the gaps using more egg wash and pour the sprinkles by hand, if necessary.
- Slice the cookies using a sharp knife, aiming for at least 1/2 inch thick cookies. Transfer the cookies to a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Put the cookies to bake in a preheated oven to 347 °F (175 °C). Then bake for 10 to 14 minutes and let them cool for a couple of minutes on the baking tray before transferring them to a cooling rack.
- Then serve and show your love!
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