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Agnes Hsu

Red Velvet Heart Cookies

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 ½ 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 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • ⅓ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • ¼ cup whole milk
  • 32 white chocolate hearts  we used Ghirardelli Valentine's White Chocolate Créme

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Recipe makes 32 cookies.
  2. Cream butter and sugar in a stand mixer or hand mixer on high speed until light and fluffy about 5 minutes.
  3. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat on medium speed for 1 minute.
  4. 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.
  5. In a separate bowl whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt.
  6. Add the dry mixture to the butter mixtrue in thirds on low spead. Blending until not dry flour bits remain.
  7. Use a one ounce cookie scoop to scoop cookies 12 per tray spaced two inches apart. Lightly pat cookies down to flatten slightly.
  8. Bake for 12-14 minutes.
  9. 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.
  10. Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack.
  11. Cookies are best stored in an air tigh container and eaten within 5 days.

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