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Red Velvet Heart Cookies

Agnes Hsu
Red Velvet Heart cookies are a delicious and lovely Valentine's day cookie with their iconic red color and special chocolate heart in the center. 
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Ingredients
  

  • 2 sticks unsalted softened butter
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs eggs
  • gel red food coloring add enough to get a red color
  • gel black food coloring add a tiny bit to deepen the red color
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/4 cup whole milk
  • 32 white chocolate hearts  we used Ghirardelli Valentine's White Chocolate Créme

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Recipe makes 32 cookies.
  • Cream butter and sugar in a stand mixer or hand mixer on high speed until light and fluffy about 5 minutes.
  • Add eggs and vanilla. Beat on medium speed for 1 minute.
  • Add red food coloring until you get a red color, add a bit of black coloring to get a more crimson color. Mix untl just blended.
  • In a separate bowl whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt.
  • Add the dry mixture to the butter mixtrue in thirds on low spead. Blending until not dry flour bits remain.
  • Use a one ounce cookie scoop to scoop cookies 12 per tray spaced two inches apart. Lightly pat cookies down to flatten slightly.
  • Bake for 12-14 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and let cool on the tray for 5 minutes before lightly pressing a white chocolate heart on top. The bottoms will melt slightly onto the tops of the cookies adhering them.
  • Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack.
  • Cookies are best stored in an air tigh container and eaten within 5 days.

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