Valentine's Day is one of the brightest and most beloved holidays. On this day, it is customary to confess love to each other, make surprises to relatives and friends, give gifts and treat with sweets (chocolate, sweets, cookies, pies), which are given a symbolic heart shape.
Sweet Valentine's Recipe
To make cookies in the form of valentine hearts, you will need:
- 100 g of butter;
- 1 glass of wheat flour;
- 3 tbsp. granulated sugar;
- ½ cup of walnut kernels;
- 1 egg;
- vegetable oil;
- colored powder.
To make sweet pink valentines, add some beetroot juice to the dough.
Grind walnut kernels in a blender and combine all ingredients: pre-softened butter, flour, sugar, egg and crushed walnuts. Knead a soft and elastic dough.
Roll it on a floured work surface into a layer about 1 centimeter thick. Using special molds in the form of hearts of different sizes, cut out valentine cookies from the dough. Roll out the excess dough again and make hearts again.
Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, lay out the cookies and place in an oven preheated to 200 ° C. Bake sweet valentines for 15-20 minutes.
After this time, remove the baking sheet with hearts from the oven, let the cookies cool, and only then remove the valentines from the baking sheet. This must be done very carefully, because the cookies are very fragile. Decorate the finished sweets with some sprinkling powder.
Valentine Chocolate Biscuit Recipe
To prepare Valentine's Day chocolate biscuit, you will need:
- 100 g flour;
- 1 tsp baking powder for dough;
- 5 eggs;
- 100 g of butter;
- 100 g of dark chocolate;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 75 g of icing sugar;
- 3 tbsp. cocoa powder;
- vanillin;
- salt.
Whisk in softened butter and icing sugar. Separate the yolks from the whites and whisk the yolks with half the sugar and a pinch of salt, and refrigerate the whites in the refrigerator. Melt the chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave, add vanillin.
Pour the yolks and chocolate into the beaten butter in turn, in parts, beat well each time.
Combine flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder. Gradually add the butter-chocolate mass to the mixture and beat until smooth.
In a separate bowl, beat the cooled egg whites and add the remaining sugar in portions. Beat everything very well and carefully add in small portions to the main dough, mix thoroughly.
When baking a biscuit, it is necessary to adhere very strictly to the temperature and time regime, otherwise the baking will turn out to be dry.
To prepare a chocolate biscuit for Valentine's Day, you will need a silicone or heat-resistant heart-shaped mold. Pour the prepared biscuit dough into it and bake in the oven for 50-60 minutes at 180 ° C. The readiness of a sweet valentine is checked with a match or a wooden toothpick.
