16 pieces

Bright and festive cookies make a great sweet Valentine's Day gift. If you don't want to painfully wash your hands and nails after molding the cookies, use disposable rubber gloves.

For cookies:

• 150 g brown sugar
• 50 g sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp. l. red food coloring
• 230 g flour
• 25 g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

For decoration:

• 100 g dark chocolate
• 100 g white chocolate
• pastry topping

The more cocoa powder you add to the dough, the darker the cookie color will be. If you want a brighter cookie, reduce the amount of cocoa powder in the recipe to 10g.

1. Combine butter, sugar, egg and vanilla extract in a large bowl and beat with a mixer on high speed for 3-4 minutes, until mixture is light and fluffy. Add red food coloring and stir at high speed until smooth.
2. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture to the liquid ingredients and stir until the ingredients are combined.
3. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. If desired, the dough can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or in the freezer for up to 4 months.
4. Roll the chilled dough into balls (you can use an ice cream spoon) and place them on a baking sheet at a distance of about 5 cm from each other. Bake in a preheated oven for 11-14 minutes. Cool the finished cookies first for about 5 minutes on a baking sheet, then put on a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
5. To decorate, melt dark and white chocolate in separate bowls in the microwave at short intervals of 10-15 seconds. Dip each cookie halfway into melted chocolate, garnish with pastry sprinkles, place on a plate or wire rack, and refrigerate for 20 minutes to set.

Homemade cookies "Oreo"

For 20 pieces

Homemade and (I truly believe so!) Healthier version of the beloved cookie that was invented in the US over 100 years ago. Traditionally served with cold milk. Cookie halves are also often used as a base for cheesecakes and tarts. The homemade version of Oreo is not as crispy as the purchased version, but no less tasty.

For the test:

• 140 g butter at room temperature
• 200 g sugar
• 1 egg
• 200 g flour
• 45 g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp soda
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

For filling

1st option:

• 60 g butter at room temperature
• 115 g cream cheese, room temperature
• 300 g icing sugar (or to taste)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

2nd option:

• 115 g butter at room temperature
• 200 g icing sugar (or to taste)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

1. Combine the butter, sugar and egg in a large bowl and beat with a mixer on high speed for 3-4 minutes, until the mixture is light and fluffy.
2. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture to the liquid ingredients and stir until the ingredients are combined. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
3. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
4. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and let stand at room temperature for about 15 minutes. Place on a floured work surface and roll out into a layer 5-7 mm thick. Cut out the circles with a cookie cutter or glass. Place the cookies on a baking sheet, approximately 5 cm apart.
5. Bake in a preheated oven for 9-10 minutes. Cool the finished cookies first for about 5 minutes on a baking sheet, then put on a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
6. For the filling, combine all the ingredients in a bowl and beat with a mixer on high speed for 3-4 minutes, until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add more caster sugar if necessary.
7. Grease one half of the cookie with cream and cover with the other half. It is convenient to use a pastry bag or a plastic bag with a cut off tip for these purposes. Put the finished cookies in the refrigerator so that the cream "grabs".
8. You can store homemade Oreo cookies in the refrigerator for up to 7 days. Let stand at room temperature for about 30 minutes before serving.

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Valentine's Day Cookies does not cause anything positive in you, because you do not like this holiday? I'll tell you a secret, I don't understand him either. But I try to please my loved ones with sweets. And you try, it doesn't hurt.

Cookie Ingredients:

200 g butter;

2.5 cups flour;

1 cup of sugar;

1/3 tsp salt.

Ingredients for the glaze:

200 g icing sugar;

40 g of egg white;

food coloring if desired.

You will also need paper and tape.

Cut butter at room temperature into several parts - for convenience.

Transfer to the bowl of a food processor.

I leave the whites for the glaze, so I add two yolks to the dough instead of one egg. If you are not planning to play with frosting, take a whole egg.

Add sugar and salt. At the same stage, if desired, you can add vanillin, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, lemon or orange zest to the dough.

We mix.

And we start adding flour. The amount indicated in the recipe is approximate. You may need a little more or a little less flour, depending on the fat content of the butter, the size of the eggs, the moisture content of the flour, and a dozen other factors.

Better, but clearly not enough.

A simple test: we touch the dough with our fingers. If dough remains on the skin, it means that there is too little flour.

But this already looks like what should be the result: the dough shines, almost does not stick to the walls of the bowl.

And yes, when touched, it does not leave marks on the hand.

We take a small amount of dough, roll it into a layer up to 4 mm thick.

Cut out the hearts (of course, hearts!).

We carefully transfer them to a baking sheet.

We bake at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 15 minutes - do not overdo it, the cookies burn very quickly.

If you have the strength and mood for the St. Valentine's decor, after transferring the cookies to the baking sheet using a cocktail straw, make 2 small holes in the center of each cookie. And bake the same way.

Already at this stage, the cookies are breathtakingly tasty! It is very difficult to refrain from not eating a couple of things.

But the icing is waiting for us! Stir the protein slightly with a fork.

Add powdered sugar.

We mix.

Don't forget about the dye.

Cut into squares from ordinary parchment paper.

Place a small amount of glaze on the corner of the square.

And we wrap the paper with a cornet.

Cut off a small piece of paper at the corner, evenly pressing on the cornet, decorate the cookies.

Beauty is it?

Won't you argue?

It remains to inscribe the "personalized" notes.

And attach them to the liver.

Good mood and, of course, a lot of love!

P.S. Valentine's Day cookies are made from regular butter cookies, the recipe for which is described in detail.

Hearts on Valentine's Day can be given not only beautiful, but also edible, combining, so to speak, business with pleasure 🙂 Even if the subject of your romantic sighs and culinary endeavors does not really like sweets, or even (sometimes it happens!) Adheres to an exceptionally healthy diet , preferring to eat a slice of apple for breakfast with a slice of carrot for dinner - he will certainly enjoy your sweet gift. After all, once a year you can step back from strict diets and enjoy something tasty! Especially if this delicious is prepared by a loved one.

The beauty of this recipe is that you can cook it both for a delicious treat and for a nice gift for February 14th - after all, it has the shape of a heart, and if you pick up a beautiful packaging or a holiday box and put our sweet valentines in it, it will be a wonderful holiday surprise for all those with a sweet tooth! Of which, by the way, there are many not only among the beautiful half of humanity, but also among the representatives of the stronger sex (although they do not always admit this!).

WE WILL NEED:

• 270 g flour
• 150 g butter (margarine)
• 100 g icing sugar (sugar)
• 2 yolks
• zest of half a lemon (orange)
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar (vanillin on the tip of a knife)
• a pinch of salt (1/3 tsp)
• thick jam (jam)
• icing sugar (for sprinkling finished cookies)

Let's start making the dough.

1. Put the softened butter (or margarine) in a bowl. Add sugar (or powdered sugar) with vanilla, and grind everything thoroughly.
   
2. Rub the zest of half a lemon on a fine grater.
   
3. Add the yolks and grind everything thoroughly. Add 250 gr in two steps. flour, and the remaining 20 gr. pour on the table under the dough. We knead a soft plastic dough, try not to add flour any more - to avoid excessive rigidity.
   
4. The photo shows what a soft and plastic dough we got. Fine! Now we wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
   
5. We will roll out the dough with such an interesting method - between two sheets of parchment paper. Since the dough is very tender, and we do not need extra flour at all. Roll out the dough 4-5 mm thick. This is the thickness that will keep the liver soft and not too thick.
   
6. Remove the top parchment. We take a mold in the form of a large heart and begin to form our sweet valentines right on the sheet. Let's put the dough that remains into action again: put it in a lump, roll it out and make a few more hearts.
   
7. Now we take a smaller heart shape and cut out these things. At the same time, we also have a bunch of small hearts.
   
8. We put the dough in a hot oven at 180 degrees. For 7-10 minutes, but you watch the readiness - the cookies should remain soft, not overdried, light.
   
9. Sprinkle our hearts with a notch with powdered sugar.
   
10. Put a spoonful of thick jam on whole large heart-cookies - in the very middle. Glue the top sprinkled with powder on top. It turns out a two-layer valentine with a beautiful colored center and snow-white sprinkling. If you take jam of different colors, then there will be an even more beautiful dish. Although for me, and so everything looks quite charming and appetizing!

Homemade cookies for February 14 - Marzipan hearts.

Perhaps this cookie does not look as perfect outwardly as the cookie from the previous recipe, and, perhaps, his photo will not appear on the covers of popular women's magazines, but believe me, you will not be able to forget this unique nutty taste and aroma for a long time!

For the marzipan mass, we need:

• 80 gr. almonds
• 60 gr. icing sugar
• 1 egg - only need protein
• 1 tsp liquor

First, prepare the marzipan mass.

1 Pour boiling water over the almonds, dry and chop on a fine grater, coffee grinder or blender. 2 Beat the protein with powdered sugar into a thick mass and combine with the nut mixture. We also add a spoonful of liquor. Leave in the refrigerator for 2-4 hours.

Cooking the dough.

For the test, take:

• 100 g butter
• 70 gr. Sahara
• 150 g flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder for dough
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 150 g marzipan mass

3 Mix the softened butter with sugar and chilled marzipan mass, the one that we have already prepared above. 4 Sift the flour with baking powder and ginger through a sieve and mix with the dough. Roll the dough into a bun, cover with foil and cool for another 2 hours. 5 Roll out the cold dough straight through the foil (so as not to add more flour) to a thickness of 0.5 cm. Cut out the hearts with a mold. 6 Put on a baking sheet and bake in a hot oven at 180 degrees for 7-10 minutes. 7 Cover the cooled cookies with marzipan with pink icing and decorate to your liking. Bon Appetit!

It turns out that such culinary masterpieces can be made in your own kitchen with your own hands! And it's not difficult at all.

For this recipe, plain parchment paper will not work for us. Your best bet is siliconized paper, or even better, a reusable Teflon baking mat. On it, the back of the gingerbread will be flat and smooth, and the caramel will not stick to the rug.

For an even thickness of rolling the dough, you can use 2 strips half a centimeter thick (can be made of cardboard, plastic, etc.). The dough is placed between them and, when rolling with a rolling pin, the required layer thickness is formed.

Molds of two hearts - larger and smaller, so that the "rim" is strong enough in width (so that the cookies do not break).

It is best to take caramel like this, red and pink. because red and pink are the most popular colors for hearts and valentines on February 14th.

1 Prepare any shortbread dough that holds its shape well, such as the dough from the first recipe.

Or you can take this composition:

• 250-300 gr flour
• 100 g butter at room temperature
• 100 grams of sugar (brown can be used)
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 0.5 tsp of baking soda
• 2 tsp ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon cloves, cardamom, allspice, anise, nutmeg, cocoa, zest (optional)

2 Sprinkle flour on the rug and roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm. 3 Cut out a large heart first, and then a small heart inside. We send the resulting "frames" in the shape of hearts into a hot oven (180 degrees) for literally 2-3 minutes, so that the dough will set and lightly brown. 4 Put the caramel in the middle of each piece and send it again (for 5-6 minutes) to the hot oven. This will melt the caramel and fill the entire area of ​​our window. You can split the multi-colored caramels and pour the pieces into the mold - then, when baked, our "window" will turn out to be multi-colored, like a stained glass window. Very nice effect! 5 After we took our hearts out of the oven, let them cool completely on the sheet, since if you try to remove them right away, the caramel can be deformed. 6 Cookies can be placed in a beautiful box with thin pink or colored paper ("silence" paper) and added with a kind message. All this will be a wonderful and original gift for Valentine's Day, a gift made with love, with your own hands. The best gift for your loved one!

Pink cookies with declarations of love - The perfect gift for Valentine's Day!

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Love confession cookie recipe:

• 2 squirrels and a pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup flour
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
• 2-3 tablespoons of water
• vanilla (optional)

1 Separate the whites from the yolks. Try not to let a drop of yolk get into the bowl with the whites, otherwise it will be difficult to whip up a good thick foam. Add a pinch of salt and begin to beat the whites with a mixer. Ideally - until the state of steady peaks - when removing the spoon from the whipped mass, we get a non-settling, steady peak. Well, or when you turn over a bowl with well-beaten proteins, they should remain at the bottom of the bowl - this is the kind of foam we need. 2 Add half a cup of sifted flour and vegetable oil to the proteins. Gently and slowly mix our mass until smooth. 3 The mass has become homogeneous, but a little thick. Add 2-3 tbsp. spoons of warm water. Vanillin can be added at this time if you plan to use it. The dough should turn out to be quite liquid, almost like pancakes - in consistency. 4 Prepare a circle template (glass, glass, something round) with a diameter of about 7-8 cm This is the most convenient diameter for our future products. Draw 6 of these circles on a sheet of parchment and turn the sheet over with a pencil drawing down. The quality of parchment varies - you need to choose one so that the cookies do not stick to the paper. You can also just grease a baking sheet with butter and spread the dough on top of it - it lags well and nothing sticks!

Put 1 tablespoon of dough in the center of the circle and use a spoon to level it along the edges of the circle in a circular motion, spreading the dough. They do not need to be made too thin, otherwise they will break when folded.

5 We send the sheet to a preheated oven (180-190 degrees) for 5 minutes - until the edges are slightly browned. We will get it out of the switched on, hot oven with the door open, one at a time, since the cookies break easily when they cool. 6 Prepare strips with wishes and confessions, as well as several round small containers, for example, coffee cups, pieces 4. Now we take out the hot (while it is plastic) cookie from the oven, put the strip with recognition in the middle and wrap it in half, aligning the edges. 7 Using the edge of the glass we form our cookies: put it across the edge of the glass, seam up, and press down on the edges, we get the shape of such a "half dumplings". To preserve the shape and freeze in this form - put the rolled cookie on the bottom of the cup - let it cool down there.
8 To get pink (and the hearts should be exactly that color!) Cookies, add 2 drops of food gel dye to the dough. The rest of the cooking steps are exactly the same. By the way, baking paper can be reused.

NOTE

From the volume of products specified in the recipe, approximately 24 cookies with a diameter of 7.5 cm are obtained.

Such cookies are not only a beautiful surprise, but also a very tasty dessert! At the very least, an interesting and intriguing process of retrieving and reading holiday and love wishes will ensure you have a fun time with your beloved half!

Strawberry hearts without baking.

These are mini cakes in red chocolate glaze on a stick, made in the shape of hearts. A fragrant, delicious delicacy and a wonderful gift for Valentine's Day - sweet edible heart cookies are no worse than painted heart cards.

Ingredients:

• 400 gr. - biscuit;
• 2 tbsp - Strawberry jam;
• 60 gr. - butter;
• glaze: 40 ml. - cream 30%; 70 gr. - White chocolate; food coloring; sugar decorations;

1 The biscuit can be taken ready-made, or you can bake it yourself. For example, one at a time, Break our biscuit into pieces and add strawberry jam (jam, syrup), softened butter to it, mix everything thoroughly. 2 Tear off a piece from the dough that is suitable in size for our heart shape. We roll it into a tight ball, place it in a mold and tamp it to give density and shape. Carefully lay out the hearts from the mold on a sheet (plate, board) covered with foil. If it is not enough to compact the dough in the shape - the heart may fall apart, pay attention to this. It is convenient to additionally cut a heart out of cardboard according to the size of our mold. Covering the dough with this heart, pressing down with your finger, it is convenient to remove the middle from the mold, it turns out very neatly, with even, clear edges. 3 From this test volume, 17 hearts were obtained. We send them to the freezer - for one hour, so that the middle hardens. 4 Melt the white chocolate in a water bath. Let's prepare wooden sticks (skewers). We dip them with one end in hot chocolate and stick them into our hearts almost to the middle of the heart. We send it to the freezer for another half hour. 5 Preparing the icing. Bring the cream to a hot state, but do not boil it. Pour chocolate into hot cream and stir. Add dye and knead again. 6 Holding the heart by the stick, coat it with glaze. While the icing hardens, decorate with additional hearts or beads from the set of cake decorations. 7 All! Let the icing freeze, and we get wonderful mini-cakes in the shape of hearts that will help us celebrate Valentine's Day with dignity.

Valentine Lemon Cookies.

Such cookies are prepared in many countries for Valentine's Day, which is why they are called "Valentines". In fact, this is quite a shortbread cookie with lemon zest - delicious, unusually aromatic, with a rich, dense taste, and if you decorate it not only with pink or red icing, but also with small hearts (from a set of ready-made cake decorations), then the image of this holiday will be fully expressed, 100%.

Ingredients:

• 400 g flour
• 4 yolks
• 250 g softened butter (200 g in a pack, but 250 g is needed)
• 150 g sugar
• zest of one lemon
• 1 bag of vanilla sugar;

1 Preparatory stage. Separate the whites from the yolks (only the yolks are needed for the test). Grate the zest of 1 lemon on a fine grater. 2 Combine softened butter, yolks, flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and zest. The butter should be softened, but not ghee. Knead an elastic homogeneous dough. Then cover with plastic wrap or a disposable bag and leave in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. 3 Remove the dough from the refrigerator and dividing it into pieces, roll it into a layer of 2-3 mm. The board (or table) must be sprinkled with flour so that the dough does not stick.

It is worth warning that the dough is rather fragile, when rolling it breaks at the edges and cracks, but do not be alarmed, it should be like that, you can glue it at the seams with your hands for convenience.

4 Cut the figures out of the dough with a mold. Using a spatula, transfer the figures to a baking sheet lined with foil or baking paper. The baking sheet does not need to be oiled as the dough is already fat. 5 We bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes at 180 C in a well-preheated oven until golden brown. 6 Decorate with white and pink glaze.

For simple icing, you need to take:

• 150 g icing sugar;
• 2 tsp lemon juice;
• 1 tbsp. l. cold boiled water;
• Food coloring;

Mix everything and grind thoroughly in a bowl. The glaze is ready if a drop of it is placed on the plate and does not spread. Such icing can be used to decorate cookies (and any confectionery) both by covering them completely with icing and by drawing patterns and lines using a pastry syringe or envelope.

You can also put simple paper red hearts on a dish with such cookies, with wishes and declarations of love written on the back - it will turn out elegantly and unusual, solemn and exciting - quite in the spirit of this wonderful holiday!

How to make heart cookie cutters yourself and meet February 14 fully armed!

If you have beautiful and convenient cookie cutters - it's just great, this section will not be very interesting for you ... But, you must admit, sometimes molds can break, mysteriously disappear (hello to Barabashka!) At the most crucial moment, and there is no time to buy new ones (reluctance, there is nothing - it is necessary to emphasize) ...

For such an emergency, you can use an ordinary aluminum can .. However, everything is very accessible and simply shown in the video.

How to make colored glaze for painting gingerbread and cookies - Video.

Recipe for colored glaze for painting gingerbread:

• 1 protein
• 200 gr. icing sugar
• 1/2 tsp lemon juice;

A few notes on this recipe:

1. Powdered sugar you need to take (or make) the finest possible grinding. Large particles will add unnecessary grain to our glaze. Therefore, it is better to sift the icing sugar through a fine strainer to exclude large inclusions.
2. Lemon juice can be replaced with citric acid diluted in water. Lemon juice not only adds sourness to the sweet glaze, but also plays another important role - it prevents it from crystallizing quickly.
3. Dyes you need to pick up. of course, only food. Those who do not tolerate chemical additives and do not want to use them in principle can use natural juices of red berries or beets to obtain red and pink shades. But keep in mind that juices will give our glaze a lot of moisture and it can dry for a very long time.
4. Can be used dry paint- dilute it in a little water and add it to the protein. At the same time, slightly increase the amount of powdered sugar.
5. To the glaze is dry faster - you can dry products with a layer of glaze applied to them in the oven at minimum power. It is also worth doing for those who are afraid to eat raw egg white.
6. Is it possible store finished icing? In what conditions and for how long? - Yes, you can keep it in the fridge for a couple of days. It may take longer, but it changes its consistency. To increase the shelf life, you can wrap the bag in a wet napkin and close it under a lid in a plastic container, and in this form it is already stored in the refrigerator.
7. After complete drying the glaze becomes very hard- this is normal, it should be so.

Cookie box and gift decoration for February 14 (and any other holiday).

When we have prepared beautiful and tasty cookies in the form of hearts, an equally urgent question arises, but how to present them beautifully now? After all, any gift should be presented in a beautiful package so that they unwind the ribbons, unfold the paper, examine the packaging, trying to guess what the surprise is there? This is the magic of the holiday and the magic of a gift! You can't ruin this magical moment with a banal plastic container or a purchased gift bag .. No, that's not it at all!

See what a wonderful box you can make with your own hands for any occasion - simply and quickly. And you can already decorate its lid in accordance with the current holiday. For Valentine's Day - this is of course an abundance of hearts of all colors and sizes 🙂

But maybe you even have a suitable clean box, worthy of your culinary masterpieces, but here's how to make it festive, how to pack it beautifully so that the gift is unique?

Check out another short video to see if this is the idea that will inspire you.

Painting gingerbread - hearts - Inspirational video for creativity.

Absolutely transcendent beauty - painted gingerbreads in the form of hearts! Probably, not everyone can do it, but just look, maybe you can learn how to make such splendor yourself! You can make wonderful gifts, and you can even take for a business idea and start selling such wonderful hearts and other gingerbread cookies (for example, via the Internet on the message boards of your city, on the same Avito, Yulia, etc. resources).

Or such beauty, mastic decorations on festive edible valentines.

I hope that my review selection of "hearty" cookies, which can be prepared for February 14, will help you choose not only a tasty and appropriate treat for the festive table, but also an idea for a gift for your loved one, if you still do not know how to surprise and amaze his imagination! By the way, I already wrote an article about small gifts, you can find there an idea for a valentine gift.

Happy celebration and complete and unconditional reciprocity!

For loved ones on Valentine's Day on February 14th or just like that - beautiful, bright and delicious heart-shaped cookies!

• 1 tbsp. flour (about 130 g);
• 100 g butter (i.e. half a pack);
• 1 tbsp Sahara.

Decoration:

• 50 g chocolate (half a bar);
• 1-2 tbsp butter;
• Nuts;
• Sprinkling confectionery.

Prepare shortbread dough: sift flour into a bowl, add sugar and softened butter, cut into pieces.

Rub the ingredients with our hands. First, you will have a crumb. Continue to knead the dough and the crumb clumps together. If the dough crumbles, add a little soft butter. If, on the contrary, it sticks to your hands, add a little flour. The finished dough is soft, does not crumble, but does not stick. Put the dough in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. In the meantime, you can click and peel the nuts for decoration. It will be delicious with any: walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts or cashews.

After taking the dough out of the refrigerator, lightly sprinkle the table and baking sheet with flour. Roll out the dough into a crust from 0.5 to 1 cm thick. Thin biscuits bake faster and get crisper, while thicker biscuits will take a little longer to bake, but they will be crumbly.

Cut out the cookies from the dough with a shape of a heart and carefully, since the cookies are very tender, we transfer them to a baking sheet. While you are making cookies, turn on the oven - let it warm up to 200C.

At this point, you can sprinkle the cookies with cinnamon or vanilla sugar if you don't want to make the chocolate icing. You need to mix in a saucer 1.5-2 tbsp. sugar and ¼ tsp. cinnamon (or 1 tsp vanilla sugar), or sugar with chopped nuts, sprinkle on each cookie and lightly press down on the sprinkles with your finger to avoid sprinkling. If you glaze the cookies with chocolate, we bake them just like that.

We bake cookies at 200-210C for 20-25 minutes, taking into account the characteristics of your oven. The cookies should be dry, crumbly and slightly golden, but still light. If the cookies are brown, it means they have overexposed them a little. But that's okay, now we will prepare the icing and sprinkling for decoration!

Break the chocolate into pieces and place in a water bath. When melted, add a piece of soft butter (15-25g) and stir. The butter will melt to create a smooth chocolate coating. Dip the cooled cookies in it with the top side - or apply the glaze with a teaspoon.

If the icing is too thick, add a little more butter to the chocolate; if it is liquid, it can be brought to the desired consistency by adding cocoa powder.

Until the glaze has hardened, sprinkle the Valentine's Day cookies with chopped nuts and colored confectionery sprinkles. To make the icing freeze faster on the finished one, put the cookies in the refrigerator. And when the decoration "grabs", carefully transfer the heart cookies to the dish.

Recipe 2: sand hearts with jam for February 14

The beauty of this recipe is that you can cook it both for a delicious treat and for a nice gift for February 14th - after all, it has the shape of a heart, and if you pick up a beautiful packaging or a holiday box and put our sweet valentines in it, it will be a wonderful holiday surprise for all those with a sweet tooth!

• 270 g flour
• 150 g butter (margarine)
• 100 g icing sugar (sugar)
• 2 yolks
• zest of half a lemon (orange)
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar (vanillin on the tip of a knife)
• a pinch of salt (1/3 tsp)
• thick jam (jam)
• icing sugar (for sprinkling finished cookies)

Put the softened butter (or margarine) in a bowl. Add sugar (or powdered sugar) with vanilla, and grind everything thoroughly.

Rub the zest of half a lemon on a fine grater.

Add the yolks and grind everything thoroughly. Add 250 gr in two steps. flour, and the remaining 20 gr. pour on the table under the dough. We knead a soft plastic dough, try not to add flour any more - to avoid excessive rigidity.

The photo shows what a soft and plastic dough we got. Fine! Now we wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

We will roll out the dough with such an interesting method - between two sheets of parchment paper. Since the dough is very tender, and we do not need extra flour at all. Roll out the dough 4-5 mm thick. This is the thickness that will keep the liver soft and not too thick.

Remove the top parchment. We take a mold in the form of a large heart and begin to form our sweet valentines right on the sheet. Let's put the dough that remains into action again: put it in a lump, roll it out and make a few more hearts.

Now we take a smaller heart shape and cut out these things. At the same time, we also have a bunch of small hearts.

We put the dough in a hot oven at 180 degrees. For 7-10 minutes, but you watch the readiness - the cookies should remain soft, not overdried, light.

Sprinkle our hearts with a notch with powdered sugar.

Put a spoonful of thick jam on whole large heart-cookies - in the very middle. Glue the top sprinkled with powder on top. It turns out a two-layer valentine with a beautiful colored center and snow-white sprinkling. If you take jam of different colors, then there will be an even more beautiful dish. Although for me, and so everything looks quite charming and appetizing!

Recipe 3: honey valentines with frosting (step by step)

Home »Pastries» Various pastries Honey biscuits "Valentines" with icing 02/05/2017 No store-bought biscuits can be compared to homemade ones. Especially if it is prepared with the addition of honey and sour cream. And if you cut it in the shape of a heart, and cover it with a beautiful glaze, then these Valentine's Day cookies can be a sweet gift. The recipe with a photo will help you knead the dough for valentines, as well as properly prepare a smooth icing for decoration.

• chicken yolk - 1 pc .;
• butter - 80 gr.;
• granulated sugar - 100 gr.;
• sour cream - 80 gr.;
• honey - 1 tbsp. l .;
• flour - 1 glass;
• baking powder - ½ tsp;
• vanillin - a pinch;
• salt - a pinch.

For glaze:

• chicken protein - 1 pc.;
• icing sugar - 150 gr.;
• citric acid - 1/5 tsp;
• food coloring red.

First, we prepare all the necessary products.

Add sugar to the yolk and rub well with a whisk. The sugar should be completely dissolved in the yolk.

Then add slightly warmed honey and pour in vanillin. We mix.

We also add butter at room temperature. Mix everything well until smooth.

Now add baking powder and sifted wheat flour.

We knead a soft, elastic, tender dough. If there is not enough flour, you can add a little more, the cookie dough should not be runny.

We roll it into a ball, wrap it in cling film or just put the bag and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Valentine cookies for Valentine's Day should be bright, colorful, beautiful. Glaze will help us to decorate the pastries the way we want. For its preparation, we take 150 grams of powdered sugar and egg white.

Mix them and beat with a mixer. You will have to beat for 6-8 minutes.

At the end of whipping, for about one minute, add citric acid at the tip of a knife. The result should be a smooth, glossy mass.

Divide the glaze into two unequal parts. You can divide it into equal parts, it all depends on how you decorate your cookies.

We add dye to most of the glaze (in my case, raspberry), you can take any other at your discretion.

Stir the glaze well with the dye. The glaze is ready, we put it aside for now, just be sure to cover it with cling film. The glaze dries very, very quickly.

Meanwhile, the dough has cooled down, we take it out of the refrigerator. For the convenience of rolling, we divide it into several parts. Then we roll each part into a layer 0.5 cm thick.

Now we cut out cookies with special cookie cutters in the form of hearts.

Place the valentines on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. And we send to bake in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

Our pastries are ready. We take it out of the oven and cool it down.

Then you can decorate the cookies however you like. The icing is applied first along the contour of the cookie and then the middle is filled. Further decoration will be suggested by your imagination. Bon Appetit!

Recipe 4: cookies hearts in a waffle iron (with photo)

• Wheat flour, premium 250 gr.
• Chicken eggs 6 pcs.
• Margarine for baking 125 gr.
• Sugar 125 gr.
• Vanillin 1 sachet
• Milk (3.5%) 250 ml.
• Baking powder to taste

Cookies can be made both soft and crunchy, it all depends on how long you bake them in the waffle iron. But before you start cooking them, you need to knead the dough. In its consistency, it should resemble liquid sour cream.

So, we separate the whites from the eggs from the yolks. In a shallow bowl, grind randomly chopped margarine with sugar and vanilla with a fork, then take a mixer and beat the mixture into a fluffy foam. Then, without stopping whisking, add one yolk to the bowl.

Next, pour in the milk, whisking with a mixer at low speed.

In another bowl, mix the flour with baking powder, and gradually begin to pour into the butter-milk mixture, continuing to beat. And the final touch: beat the whites into a foam and gently introduce into the dough, after which we let it brew within half an hour in a warm place.

We connect the waffle iron to the network and heat it to medium temperature. Then put about two tablespoons of dough in it and distribute it evenly over the surface. We close and hold for about 40-60 seconds. This will create a soft cookie.

Then we carefully take out the finished cookies with a fork or spatula and let it cool.

Recipe 5: heart shaped cookies on gas

• chicken eggs - 4-5 pcs;
• baking margarine - 100 gr;
• vanilla sugar - sachet;
• granulated sugar - 1 glass;
• salt - a pinch;
• baking soda - 1 incomplete teaspoon;
• wheat flour - 8-9 tbsp. spoons

We take the dishes in which we will knead the dough, break 4-5 eggs.

Add a bag of vanilla sugar, as little as possible.

Melt a pack of margarine in the microwave or on the stove, I had an incomplete pack of margarine, so I melted as much as it was, we also pour it into the eggs.

Then beat everything with a mixer at the first speed. Beat just until smooth, so that everything is mixed and dissolved (sugar, soda).

Now add two tablespoons of flour to the contents, and beat in the same way at first speed.

Enough about 8-9 tablespoons for the dough, the dough should not turn out to be liquid, but also very thick.

It should move away from the spoon slowly (make the dough thicker than on the cakes). Now when the dough is ready, turn on the stove, grease the mold on both sides with vegetable oil, put on fire and heat.

After the mold has warmed up on both sides, we begin to fry our cookies, pour out an incomplete ladle of dough, about the same amount

and close the mold, leave it literally for 1-2 minutes, turn the mold over and check whether it is baked or not.

If baked, leave the mold upside down to bake the other side.

Recipe 6, step by step: homemade cookies Hearts

Today I want to offer a simple baking option that will fit perfectly on the festive table on February 14th. We will bake heart cookies, for which we need special shapes.

• sour cream - about 200 g;
• butter - 100 g;
• sugar - 1 full glass;
• black chocolate - 50-100 g;
• eggs - 1 pc.;
• flour - 400-450 g;
• vanillin - 1 sachet;
• colored sugar pencils;
• baking powder - 1.5 tbsp. spoons.

Let's get started. Beat one egg with sugar.

Mix the softened (not melted) butter with sour cream and add to the egg-sugar mixture. Beat everything together with a whisk (or mixer).

Add flour mixed with baking powder and knead the dough. Add vanillin. The dough should not be too tight, therefore, gradually adding flour, focus on its amount during kneading. We put it in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

When the dough has cooled a little, we take it out and roll out a layer about 7-8 mm thick. We cut out our cookies with special shapes in the shape of hearts. I used rather large forms (8 cm wide).

Grease a baking sheet with a thin layer of vegetable oil and put cookies on it. We put it in a preheated oven (180 degrees). Bake until pleasant light brown.

Let the finished cookies cool, and put melted chocolate on its surface. You can make a chocolate glaze by adding a little butter to the chocolate while heating (in a water bath). But, you need to take into account that it will not completely freeze on the surface of the cookie.

You can decorate hearts in different ways. Let's say you put chocolate on only one half of it, like in my photo.

You can write letters on the hearts, for example, write names or holiday wishes. As a last resort, just sprinkle them with powdered sugar! I used special colored sugar pencils to decorate the cookies.

Recipe 7: birthday cookies with hearts

Homemade cookie recipe hearts in tins.

• Flour 450 gr
• Baking powder 2 teaspoon
• Sugar 150 gr
• Butter 220 gr
• Chicken egg 1 pc.
• Vanilla essence 1 teaspoon
• Gel dye red 1.5 teaspoon

Knead a soft dough with all the ingredients except the dye. If it's sticky, add a little flour.

Separate a third of the dough and transfer it to a separate bowl. Add red dye to this part and mix until smooth.

Roll out the red dough into a layer about 5 mm wide, cut out small cookies with a small heart-shaped mold.

Fold the resulting hearts on top of each other.

Roll the rest of the dough into thin identical sausages. Wrap the resulting "turret" of hearts with white sausages around the entire circumference.

Wrap the blanks in plastic wrap and send them to the refrigerator for at least 2 hours (preferably overnight).

Bake at 180 degrees in a preheated oven for about 10 minutes, no longer, the cookies should not darken.

Recipe 8: cookies Hearts with confiture

These shortbread cookies are very fragile and tender. The secret of its preparation is that it is cooked with yolks and cornflour. Any thick confiture can be used as a filling. By the way, this cookie is perfect as a Valentine's card for Valentine's Day.

• 290 g flour
• 4 yolks
• 130 g plums. butter (soft)
• 100 g sugar
• 50 g starch (preferably corn starch)
• zest of one lemon
• 1 pinch of salt
• 100 g of jam (I have cherry)

Rub the lemon zest on a fine grater. Grind the yolks with sugar to white. In another bowl, mix flour with starch, a pinch of salt and lemon zest. Then add the egg yolks, butter and stir thoroughly.

Add egg yolks and butter. We knead a soft dough that does not stick to our hands, roll it into a ball and, covered with cling film, send it to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

We roll the dough into a ball. Then we roll out the dough into a thin layer and cut out the hearts using a notch or stencil. For half the hearts in the middle, put about, 5 tsp. jam, then cover with another heart and press down on the edges with a fork.

Cover with the second heart and press the edges with a fork. We spread the finished hearts on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and send it to an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 20 minutes.

Recipe 9: how to make cookies by February 14

Beautiful and very delicate shortbread cookies for Valentine's Day, make delicious valentines as a gift for your loved ones. The dough is crumbly and not very sweet. We use margarine at room temperature. You will need two heart-shaped cookie cutters, one large and one small. Any jam can be used, as long as it is thick. I chose currant jam.

• wheat flour 2 ½ stack.
• margarine 150 g
• egg 3 pcs.
• sugar 6 tablespoons
• salt 1 chips.
• baking powder 1 tsp
• jam 100 ml

Recipe 10: Valentine Cookies Glazed Hearts

You need a lot of ingredients for the dough, but they are all available. In addition, a lot of cookies are obtained from one serving. One of the most important components is potato starch, which makes it possible to make baked goods more crumbly and tender. Everything is prepared quickly, in haste, and can be stored for a long time if not eaten right away.

• flour - 3 tbsp.
• butter - 150 g
• potato starch - 125 g
• salt - a pinch.
• soda - ½ tsp
• baking powder - ½ tsp
• sugar - 1 glass
• milk - 2/3 cup
• egg - 1 pc.
• vanilla sugar - 1 sachet

for glaze:

• icing sugar - about 200 g
• lemon juice
• food coloring.

The butter should be at room temperature. Then it lends itself easily to whipping. Put it in a bowl and beat with a mixer. But you can just grind it with a fork. Pour in sugar, vanilla sugar and grind (or beat) everything together until smooth.

Add one egg.

Mix thoroughly.

Sift the entire portion of flour into a separate bowl, send baking powder, soda, salt, starch (sifted) there.

Pour half of the dry mixture into the oil mass. We mix.

Pour in milk.

And add the rest of the dry mixture.

Knead the dough and form a ball. We wrap it in foil. We send it to the refrigerator for 1-2 hours or to the freezer for 30-40 minutes.

We take out the chilled dough and roll it into a layer 0.3-0.5 cm thick. Please note that the cookies will grow well in the oven. Therefore, we make it thinner. We squeeze the hearts out with molds.

We spread it on a baking sheet covered with parchment. We put it in a preheated oven. We bake cookies at home at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.

We take out the ruddy hearts from the oven. Let them cool down. And we send to bake the next batch. I got almost four batches from one batch of dough.

Let's make the icing for the cookies. Sift the icing sugar into a deep plate. Pour 3-4 tablespoons into a separate cup. lemon juice or citric acid diluted in water. There is also food coloring. And gradually we mix.

It is necessary to add liquid until the consistency of liquid sour cream is obtained. It is important to catch the moment here so that the glaze is not thick, but also not very liquid.

Cover the hearts of our homemade cookies with the resulting fondant and let them dry on parchment or on a wire rack. Excess icing may drip off. If you wish, you can decorate the cookies with sprinkles, sprinkling with icing that has not yet frozen.