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
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.
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
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
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In mixer- combine butter & sugar. Beat on medium speed until light & fluffy.
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Turn the mixer to low & add egg & vanilla. Beat until just combined.
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Slowly beat in flour & cocoa.
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Transfer dough to large piece of parchment paper.
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Place another piece on top & roll out to about 3/4 inch thick piece of cookie dough between the 2 sheets of parchment.
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Place on cutting board & refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
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Once dough is finished chilling- preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Remove top layer of parchment & use your cutters to cut your hearts.
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Use a thin spatula to transfer cut out cookies to ungreased cookie sheet.
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Place your M&M's on your cookies & bake 10-13 minutes.
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Allow to cool on baking sheet completely before transferring to airtight container.
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Repeat rolling, cutting & baking until you have used all the dough.
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Enjoy!
Don’t they just make you smile?? Enjoy!!
See you next month for another one of my family’s favorite recipes.
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