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February 5, 2014 by Gina Kleinworth

Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies (she: Gina)

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Hi everyone! It’s Gina from Kleinworth & Co. again.

I’m back to share with you an fun little Valentine’s Day treat today. I absolutely love these cookies. Their fun Valentine colors…..the fact that they are chocolate. Love Love Love. I originally started with the mindset that these cookies would be frosted. But then as I realized that I had just purchased SO MANY bags of M&M’s with the intention of using them in baking. I am running out of time to make goodies for Valentine’s Day. Before long all these red & pink candies won’t be able to be used in my baking & there they will sit. So I scrapped the frosting idea, cut out a lot of time in the kitchen & added them to these fun Chocolate Sugar Cookies to make some really cute treats.

Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies

I used my scalloped heart shaped cutters – my favorite ones out of all my hundreds of shapes. I really had planned on using some of the other cutters in my collection but these particular ones just make me happy. So I kept going back to these – even after pulling out every single heart shape I have. 🙂 Guess I might need to make some more to get it out of my system so I can move on to other cutters.

Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies
These really are so good. Soft & chewy & those M&M’s add just that little something extra to make them fabulous.

Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies

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Valentine Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1-1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 sticks butter - room temperature
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup dutch process cocoa powder
  • 1/2 bag milk chocolate Valentine M&M's

Instructions

  1. In mixer- combine butter & sugar. Beat on medium speed until light & fluffy.
  2. Turn the mixer to low & add egg & vanilla. Beat until just combined.
  3. Slowly beat in flour & cocoa.
  4. Transfer dough to large piece of parchment paper.
  5. Place another piece on top & roll out to about 3/4 inch thick piece of cookie dough between the 2 sheets of parchment.
  6. Place on cutting board & refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
  7. Once dough is finished chilling- preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  8. Remove top layer of parchment & use your cutters to cut your hearts.
  9. Use a thin spatula to transfer cut out cookies to ungreased cookie sheet.
  10. Place your M&M's on your cookies & bake 10-13 minutes.
  11. Allow to cool on baking sheet completely before transferring to airtight container.
  12. Repeat rolling, cutting & baking until you have used all the dough.
  13. Enjoy!

Don’t they just make you smile?? Enjoy!!

See you next month for another one of my family’s favorite recipes.

Want more Valentine Goodies??

Cinnamon Roll Hot Chocolate from kleinworthco.com
Cinnamon Roll Hot Chocolate

Red Velvet Brownies from kleinworthco.com
Valentine Red Velvet Brownies

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  1. Rebecca says

    February 5, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    I’ve got a ton of M&Ms too, so this recipe is perfect. It looks so easy, but so pretty too! Thanks!

  2. Brianna Hartman says

    February 7, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    I just made these cookies, and I LOVE them! I am making cookies to send to my fiance, and I decided to make our family recipe for sugar cookies as well as chocolate sugar cookies, which I have never made before. I made one recipe before this one, and they were NOT what i was expecting; they were way too bitter. Every other recipe I looked at after that one all looked the same, as in the ratio of cocoa powder to sugar was just about the same in each one. But then I found this recipe and decided to give it a shot, and I love it! It will definitely become a “staple” cookie recipe in our family!

    • Mariel says

      February 7, 2014 at 10:08 pm

      Yay! That makes me excited to try them too! They’re super cute!

    • Gina says

      February 8, 2014 at 8:59 am

      YAY!! I’m so happy you like them. They are certainly a family favorite for us.

  3. Christina says

    February 10, 2014 at 11:04 am

    How many cookies does this make? I know cutter size will vary but I’d like to get 20 out of this recipe 🙂

    • Gina says

      February 10, 2014 at 1:15 pm

      Hi Christina – you should be able to do that. I was using jumbo cutters & then the tiny ones. I probably had close to 20 – possibly more. But I didn’t count them. I did about 8-10 per sheet & I know I baked 2 full sheets + a few more on another smaller one.

  4. Cassie says

    July 27, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    Did you use salted or unsalted butter in your recipe?

    • Gina Kleinworth says

      July 28, 2014 at 11:40 am

      Thanks for the question Cassie! I think at the time I used salted but that is really up to you. With some recipes I am particular about which I use – but for this one it doesn’t matter.

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