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We continue our delicious series of articles Recipes for Valentine's Day. We have already talked about recipes such as scrambled eggs for Valentine's Day , heart shaped pizza and much more in the previous article “Valentine’s Day Recipes – Quick and Easy.”

There I also posted sweet dessert recipes for Valentine's Day “Strawberries in chocolate”, “Heart ice cream”.

Today we're looking at a few Valentine's Day cookie recipes. I'll show you 20 ways to decorate cookies for Valentine's Day.

The dough recipes themselves - you will find at the end of this article. I will offer you recipes for different cookies– lemon, chocolate, gingerbread, nut, coconut – but before kneading the dough, let’s see what kind of Valentine’s cookies they are and choose an idea for yourself.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - SCARLET HEARTS.

Add enough food coloring to the dough so that the dough turns red.

ATTENTION. Dye for easter eggs It is suitable only if it does not contain salt, or if the package contains the inscription “Can be used in confectionery products.” You don't want to end up with a salty cookie.

We glue the baked cookies together; we’ll talk about gluing the cookies below...

Recipes for Valentine's Day - DOUBLE LAYER COOKIES.

"DOUBLE LAYER STRIPED"

We glue two cookies to each other with the usual jam, marmalade, glaze, caramel syrup, or egg white whipped with sugar. Draw diagonal stripes with white icing and sprinkle with red confectionery sprinkles.

White glaze can be made from tiles melted in a water bath white chocolate. Or you can find a recipe for glaze made from egg whites whipped with sugar in our article « Gingerbread houses- all the secrets of mastery" (only on the website ), there you will find a simple and quick caramel and butterscotch glue recipe, they are very convenient and tasty for gluing cookies together.

COOKIES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY "SMALL IN BIG"

Bake cookies in the shape of hearts of different sizes. Paint each heart separately with colored glaze. And stick a small heart on top of the big one.

Colored glaze, convenient for coloring cookies, is best made from a white chocolate bar.

Take 3 cups and place them in a frying pan filled with water. Place the frying pan with the cups on the fire. It's called water bath. While the water is heating, break white chocolate bars into cups, approximately equal to each container.

Once the chocolate has melted, add a different color of food coloring to each mug. Or one red color, just sprinkle more somewhere (you'll get bright pink), somewhere less (you'll get light pink). We paint the cookies with a brush with still hot chocolate, without turning off the heat under it so that the chocolate does not cool down.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - COOKIES WITH FILLING.

We cut out hearts from the rolled out dough and then make another hole in the shape of a small heart in half of the figures. We bake both whole and “holey” hearts on a baking sheet. Then we glue them together (I indicated the glue recipes above), fill the resulting hole with jam, marmalade, glaze, melted chocolate, sweet cream, mastic.

Or you can immediately put the “holey” cookies on a whole one while still raw and cut the sides with a knife (see 3 photos in the photo series above), you will get such an elegant fringe. Even before baking, place a slice of marmalade or marshmallow into this cavity; it will melt into hot oven and fills the heart. Or here’s another interesting way...

Recipe for Valentine's Day - INTERESTING DESIGN.

COOKIES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY "CARAMEL HEART"

To create a caramel heart, you will need to cut out holey hearts from the dough (instructions in the previous cookie). Place them on a baking sheet lined with oiled parchment. Pour 1-2 tablespoons of caramel crushed in a coffee grinder into the hole and bake. In a hot oven, the caramel will melt and fill the entire center of the cookie. Caramels can be selected in different colors.

COOKIES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY "TWO-COLOR"

Everything is simple here, you only need 3 molds of different sizes. First, cut out whole large cookies: 10 brown and 10 white. We do it in them a smaller mold holes and exchange heart pieces. That is, we put freshly cut brown cookies into a large white cookie. And in the big brown one we put the piece that we just cut out of the white heart. And we carry out the same manipulation with very tiny molds.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - “HEART WITH CARAMEL SPIRITS”

We crush the caramel in a coffee grinder and sprinkle the cookies with this caramel sugar. To make the caramel stick to the cookies, brush them with jam, marmalade or glaze.

Valentine's Day Recipe - EASY DECORATIONS.

You can cover half of the cookies with chocolate, or coat them with whipped egg white and sprinkle with heart-shaped confectionery sprinkles. This sprinkle is for sale At outlets selling cake decorations or at any market, ask at stalls selling only spices. Be sure to ask the seller, since you won’t immediately notice such a small thing in a kiosk window.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - DECENT BEADS.

Sour chewy fruit-flavored jelly beans, or chocolate M&Ms, or Soviet multi-colored jelly beans. Pour the glaze over the cookies, melted caramel (crush the caramel in a coffee grinder and melt in a water bath) and, while the glaze has not yet set, quickly place our sweets.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - SQUEEZING THE BEAUTY.

It is also convenient to apply a drawing by squeezing colored glaze from a pastry bag or pastry syringe. Ideal for these purposes protein glaze– recipe and all the secrets proper preparation I described the protein glaze in detail in the article “Gingerbread houses - all the secrets of craftsmanship” (only on the website ).

Valentine's Day Recipe - GLAZING IN TUBE.

To be honest, I myself have never used such a thing. But many cooks and housewives love to work with her. This thing is called differently confectionery gel. Sold in retail outlets that sell cake decorating products (in markets and shopping centers).

Recipe for Valentine's Day - MASTIC COOKIES.

What is mastic, and how to make it so beautiful sweet applications simple and fast, I will tell you in our next article Valentine's Day Recipes – Heart Cupcakes (online only ).

Recipe for Valentine's Day - BOUQUET FROM COOKIES.

This cookies on a stick can be done in two ways.

Method one– put the stick into the cookie again before baking(in this case, you can only use wooden skewers). Plastic sticks cannot be baked; your cookies will become toxic and smelly. A wooden skewer can be placed between two layers of hearts cut from dough and baked in the oven

Method two– plastic chopsticks are already allowed (cocktail straws and skewers for canapes are suitable). Glue two cookies together with chocolate, toffee, or caramel glue, after placing a stick between the layers. You will find recipes for the above adhesives in the article. “Gingerbread houses - all the secrets of the masterstav” (only on the website ).

Valentine's Day Cookies - SERVING.

But these photographs show options for how to beautifully serve cookies on the table.

Cookies for Valentine's Day - WE MAKE AS A GIFT.

You can buy a heart-shaped box in the gift department of a large department store or in gift shops. The cost of such an empty large box is 2-3 dollars.

Well? Have you already decided what kind of cookies you will bake for Valentine's Day? Then let's make the dough!

Valentine's Day Recipe - Making Cookie Dough.

I will offer my favorite cookie recipe (with options for different flavors), but you can use your own own recipe cookies to create our sweet valentines.

Ingredients for one baking sheet.

100 g butter(crush with a fork or chop with a knife)

100 g sugar

half a bag of baking powder (or soda slaked with vinegar). If you run out of vinegar, you can extinguish the soda with lemon, orange juice, i.e. any sour juice or jam, citric acid, diluted in a spoon of water, and even yogurt.

1 egg or 2 egg yolks, if Using the egg whites, you will want to make icing to decorate the cookies.

2 cups flour(this is approximately, depends on the size of the eggs and the flour itself)

Salt.

Mix the dough from the above ingredients.

Divide the dough into 4 - 6 parts and add your favorites to each part. doping.

For chocolate cookies– add 2 tablespoons of cocoa to the dough and knead well.

For fragrant cookies– add 1 tablespoon of cinnamon and knead too.

For gingerbread cookies – add 0.5 teaspoon each of ground ginger and nutmeg and 1 tablespoon of honey.

For the lemon cookies– grate the lemon, only the skin, and add the resulting lemon zest to the cookies, you can also add the lemon juice itself. And knead the dough well.

For the nut cookies– add chopped peanuts, hazelnuts or walnuts in a coffee grinder.

For the coconut cookies– pour 2-5 tablespoons of coconut flakes into the dough. Knead well.

When our additive is evenly distributed throughout the entire dough mass. Every lump of dough is needed Wrap in plastic and put in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

Chilled dough roll out on the table sprinkled with flour and cut out hearts with a mold. If you (like me) don’t have heart molds, you can cut out hearts from regular cardboard and, placing them on the dough, trace them with a knife - I’ve already gotten the hang of it, and in 15 minutes I cut out a whole baking sheet of hearts.

Or you can cut regular round cookies into different sized shot glasses and then turn them into valentines by drawing hearts on them with icing.

Cut it out, put it on a baking sheet and put it in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for 10-12 minutes.

Cookies bake very quickly, watch the time, as soon as it browns at the edges and turns yellow itself (do not wait until it turns brown), remove it immediately.

Now we get to the fun part about decorating. To do this, let's go back to the beginning of the article.

And on next page We'll be baking a lot of different cupcakes for Valentine's Day, like these.

To do this, let's go to the article “Recipes for Valentine’s Day “Heart Cupcakes” (only on the website ) or to the next page.

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Cookies “Hearts”

There are many recipes for baking (including low-calorie ones), but the most delicious cookies obtained if you cook them with good mood and love. As a basis, you can take any dough that is familiar to you, simply shape it into a heart (for example, it will work well, there are so many options for baking with glaze. It’s perfect for a holiday).

Since everyone in our family loves baking, I bake often and offer recipes that we liked the most. Prepare delicious, fragrant, crumbly or fluffy cookies and arrange a real holiday for your loved ones!

Cheese cookies in the shape of hearts

What we cook from:

• Gouda and Camembert cheese - 50 g each;
• flour – 180 g;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• butter – 100 g;
• baking powder – 1 sachet;
• ground (powder) spices: white pepper, paprika, nutmeg - ¼ teaspoon of each type;
• cream 11% – 30 ml;
• sesame – 10 g;
• peanuts – 20 g;
• sesame – 1 teaspoon.

How to prepare cheese cookies with spices and nuts:

Cheese “hearts” have a piquant taste due to spices and nuts, and are excellent with tea, coffee, and hot chocolate. These cookies seem too high in calories or unsweetened, try using them as a base or prepare dough for dietary baking(with the addition of bran, fruit juices and purees).

Cookies “Hearts” in glaze

What we cook from (this list of products makes about 20 cookies):

• flour – 300 g;
• corn starch – 2 teaspoons;
• baking powder – 2 g;
• salt - a small pinch;
• butter – 70-80 g (margarine is also suitable);
• Sunflower oil – 4 tablespoons;
• sugar – 100-150 g;
• egg – 2 pcs.;
• vanillin – 1 g (0.5 sachet);
• almond extract – 0.5 teaspoon;

Icing for cookies “Hearts”

• butter (soft) – 60 g;
• powdered sugar - 2.5 cups;
• vanillin – 0.5 sachet (1 g);
• food coloring.

How to cook: the process of making glazed cookies for Valentine's Day:

Crumbly openwork cookies “Valentine Hearts”

What we cook from:

• butter – 1 pack (200 g) (can be replaced with good margarine);
• white of 1 egg;
• powdered sugar or fine sugar – 80 g;
• salt - on the tip of the knife;
• vanillin – 1 -2 g;
• flour – 230 g.

How to prepare sweet Valentine hearts:

Yeast cookies “Hearts” with cinnamon

Sweet valentines with yeast - it's simple, tasty, beautiful. Don't be alarmed, it's also fast. The good thing about this recipe is that you don’t have to wait for the dough to “rise” several times. You knead it once and wait a few minutes until the cookies, already shaped into hearts, “fit.”

• milk (warm) – 120 ml;
• yeast – 15 g (three level teaspoons);
• sugar – 3 teaspoons;
• egg yolk – 1 pc.;
• butter or margarine (needs to be slightly softened) – 30 g;
• salt - a small pinch;
• flour – 300 g;

For the filling:

• cinnamon (powder) – 1 sachet (I have 20 g);
• butter (here it’s definitely better to do without margarine) – 50 g;
• sugar – 0.5 cups.

If you like poppy seeds, you can add them to the filling.

How to prepare “Hearts” cookies with yeast:

• Preheat the oven, place the hearts on a baking sheet, bake for about 20 minutes until golden brown.

Chocolate cookies “Hearts”

These cookies are more like a cake, made from a fairly liquid dough (like apple pie, charlotte), we don’t roll it out, but use special molds, for example, like these:

It's easy and convenient to prepare heart-shaped cookies and cupcakes in these silicone molds

Perhaps you don’t have small molds, but have a large heart-shaped one, then just bake a big beautiful cupcake. If you cut it in half and decorate it with any cream, you get a cake.

No heart shape? No problem, this is how you can form a heart-shaped cake from biscuits that were baked in a round and square shape!

What do we prepare the dough from:

• margarine or butter – 50-60 g;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• sugar – 0.5 cups;
• salt - a small pinch;
• thick kefir, fermented baked milk or sour cream – 150-200 g;
• vanillin – 2 g sachet;
• cocoa – 2 teaspoons;
• starch – 1 tablespoon;
• flour – 150 – 200 g (the dough should turn out like very thick sour cream)
• baking powder – 1 teaspoon.

How to cook chocolate cookies"Hearts":

The recipe for “Hearts” cookies can be anything. Someone remembers the old waffle iron that they got from their parents, while others think about a wonderful table decoration for Valentine's Day. Heart-shaped cookies can be prepared according to any recipe, simply giving the necessary shape. But there are also recipes that are ideal for this option. Below are different recipes, both for baking in the oven and using a waffle iron. However, they are equally tasty and do not require much time or effort.

What are heart-shaped cookies good for?

The most common use for Heart cookies is decoration. festive table. It can be used both at a wedding and its anniversary. Also, thanks to this shape, cookies can become a decoration for Valentine's Day, since this particular holiday is associated with hearts.

The second option would be a gift for a loved one. “Heart” cookies, especially if decorated with icing or beautiful sprinkles, can be an addition to any gift. Of course, it needs to look beautiful. However, even the fact that it is made with love can turn this delicacy into something special.

And the third option is associated with a device such as a waffle iron. It’s no secret that “Heart” cookies have been made in a waffle iron since Soviet times. Many people have an old form in which they had to cook on gas. Now there are electric molds and waffle irons on sale, thanks to them the fashion for this pastry has revived again. However, many people successfully use old forms, which does not make the taste of the baked goods worse.

Chocolate cookies for Valentine's Day. Ingredients

To make Heart cookies, you will need a special mold that allows you to cut out figures from the dough. You can buy it at a kitchenware store.

For the test you will need:

• 200 grams of butter, it must first be warmed at room temperature within thirty minutes;
• zest of one lemon;
• 450 grams of flour, preferably wheat;
• 3 chicken eggs medium size;
• 100 grams of granulated sugar.

For the glaze you need one hundred grams of white and dark chocolate without any additives. You can also choose a dairy option.

Chocolate cookies: preparation

Pre-seasoned butter must be kneaded. Then beat it with a mixer at medium speed. Without ceasing to stir, add lemon zest to the oil, beat in the eggs one at a time.

After the mass becomes homogeneous, you can add granulated sugar, and then flour. If you pour it in a little at a time, you can quickly get rid of lumps and get a homogeneous mass. In the end, the mixer may no longer be necessary, since the stiff dough can be kneaded by hand. The finished product should be placed in the refrigerator for thirty minutes to cool.

After the Heart cookie dough has cooled, you need to roll it out. Use a mold to cut out hearts. They are placed on a baking sheet greased with oil. Cookies should be baked at a temperature of one hundred and fifty degrees until it turns golden brown.

When the cookies are ready, dip them in chocolate. Previously, white and black are melted separately in a water bath. That is, a row of cookies turns white, and a row turns black. If desired, the finished delicacy can be rolled in coconut flakes. To allow the glaze to harden, place the cookies in the refrigerator.

Shortbread. Recipe

You can also make shortbread cookies in the shape of a heart. For it you need:

• 200 grams of butter;
• 2 cups wheat flour;
• a glass of powdered sugar;
• two tablespoons of vanilla sugar (can be replaced with vanilla);
• one egg;
• a pinch of salt;
• zest of half an orange.

According to this recipe, the photos of “Hearts” cookies look quite appetizing. To do this, after preparing the main product, it is better to take care of decorating the cookies.

First of all, pour out the flour and powdered sugar, thoroughly mixing these two ingredients together. Salt, vanilla sugar and orange zest are also added here. The mixture is laid out on a board, a hole is made in it, where the egg is broken. Butter cut into pieces and placed around the edges. Using a knife, chop and mix the mixture. The result is dough that should not stick to your hands or knife. If this does not happen, you can add flour.

The finished dough is divided into small balls, each of which is covered with a clean napkin and left in the cold for one hour. This will help the butter “set” the dough.

Shortbread. Preparation

Sprinkle on the board small quantity flour. They sprinkle it on the rolling pin. The first ball is rolled out to a thickness of two to three centimeters. If you want the cookies to look like gingerbread, then add up to five centimeters in thickness. A thinner treat will have a crunchier feel.

Then the cookies are cut out with a special heart-shaped shape. You can also try to cut out the desired outline with a knife yourself. You can put a little flour on a baking sheet. There is no need to lubricate it with oil, since there is already enough of it in the dough.

The top of the cookies is brushed with egg white. It cooks quickly, at a temperature of 220 degrees. Once the batch is browned, it is removed.

Cookies "Hearts" in the form. Recipe with photo

To prepare these cookies, you can use either a modern electric waffle iron or an old version that was inherited from relatives. It turns out equally delicious.

It requires:

• 3.5 cups flour;
• 4 teaspoons baking powder;
• six medium-sized eggs;
• 200 grams of margarine;
• 1.5 cups granulated sugar.

Also, when baking the first batch of cookies, you may need vegetable oil to grease the mold.

Cookies in shape. Preparation

The recipe for “Heart” cookies in a waffle tin is quite simple. The eggs are beaten into a deep bowl, and granulated sugar is added to them. Beat the resulting mixture with a mixer until foam forms. The margarine is grated immediately from the refrigerator and added to the resulting mixture.

Flour and baking powder are thoroughly mixed in a separate bowl, and then, without ceasing to stir, add little by little into the liquid. The consistency of the dough becomes similar to curd mass.

The finished dough is laid out on a heated form. The first batch may turn out uneven, but later it becomes clear how much dough you need to put in to make the cookies complete. They bake for about three minutes, depending on the power of the waffle iron. The option in which cooking takes place on the stove assumes that the mold will be turned over.

Heart shaped cookies are delicious dessert. It can be beautifully decorated and presented as a nice gift to a loved one. Thanks to beautiful shape and decor, this delicacy will decorate the table. It is also delicious to eat with strong tea or coffee.

How nice it is to sit with you, crunching on freshly baked cookies! And homemade ones, not boring crackers from the supermarket. Don't know how to bake? No problem!

Try making heart cookies, their recipe is so simple that even a novice housewife can handle it.

Knead, roll, cut, bake - and on the table! And you can do without an oven - but first things first. Let's start with the usual shortbread cookies.

"Sand" classic

Simple recipe shortcrust pastry and it’s really easier than easy: butter, flour, a little sugar and a little salt. All! By the way, it’s quite possible to do without sugar - and rightly so: why do we need extra calories? Before baking, sprinkle the cookies with grated cheese or salt and caraway seeds - it will be an excellent snack for beer. But we are not talking about beer, but about coffee and cocoa with tea. So the topping will be sweet.

Ingredients

Cooking method

1. Soften the butter slightly and knead thoroughly with sugar (if you want sweet cookies) and salt. Then add flour to it little by little.
2. Chop the dough with a knife on a board and roll into a “bun”. And - into the refrigerator.
3. After a couple of hours, roll out and cut out hearts with a mold. Place on a baking sheet, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar or - for real coffee lovers - finely ground coffee. After 10–15 minutes, the hearts will become a pleasant golden color - it’s time to take them out!

By the way, Heart cookies have many recipe options. For example, mayonnaise. 100 g of mayonnaise and butter, egg, sugar (optional), a glass of flour. The cookies will turn out so tender that even staunch opponents of “Mayanesis” will not be able to resist!

This recipe is more complicated. But the result is worthy of a festive table! Yes, the caloric content is high. But you won’t “hamster” him with kilograms, will you? And if occasionally, then for the sake of such deliciousness, even ardent fans of diets will break their “food discipline” a little.

Ingredients

We will need:

Cooking method

For those losing weight and vegans

Do you adhere to the “I don’t eat anyone” principle? Are you guided by strict canons of religious fasts? Or, following more “earthly” motives, are you trying to get rid of extra pounds? This is not a reason to give up baking. Lenten recipe- especially for you! No butter with sour cream, no eggs - only plant products. And the calorie content is not very high. Cute orange crispy hearts: no one will guess that the base of the dough is tomato juice!

Ingredients

The recipe is very simple, and the ingredients for it can be found even in the kitchen of an inveterate bachelor (or bachelorette).

For the test you will need:

Cooking method

1. Mix tomato juice with vegetable oil, add sugar and soda. Then - flour.
2. Roll out the soft dough into a layer of about half a centimeter, cut out the hearts with a mold and bake. In 15 minutes, the orange vegetarian miracle will be ready!

Rest assured: your vegan friends will not refuse such a treat, and your always losing weight friend will definitely ask for the recipe!

For those who are not friendly with the oven

And finally, a recipe that doesn’t require an oven. It will be replaced by a waffle iron pan. The dough for such hearts is prepared a little differently - it is quite liquid. You will have to beat a lot - a mixer will help you.

Ingredients

We will need:

Cooking method