{Oreo style cookies}
Summary: Chocolate and vanilla sandwiches, adapted from this recipe
Preparation time: 25 minute(s)
Cooking time: 10 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 12
Ingredients
- Cookie dough:
- 160 g all-purpose flour
- 95 g Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 100 g brown sugar
- 70 g unsalted butter, melted and cold
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 75 g confectioners’ sugar
- 75 g butter
- a few drops vanilla extract
Vanilla buttercream:
Directions:
- Into a medium-size bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, sugar and salt; set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix butter and egg; beat to combine. With mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture; continue beating until dough is well combined.
- Place the dough between two paper parchment, and roll out the dough using a rolling pin, to a thickness of 0,5 mm. Freeze for 15 minutes, while preheating oven to 375 degrees.
- Take the dough out of the freezer, cut and transfer to a baking sheet lined with paper parchment
- Transfer to oven, and bake until cookies are firm, about 10 to 12 minutes
- Transfer baking sheet to wire rack to cool completely.
- Place cream filling in a pastry bag fitted with a coupler, and pipe about 1 tablespoon filling onto the flat side of half the cookies. Place remaining cookies on top, and gently press on each to squeeze filling to edges.
- To prepare the cream filling, place ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Set aside at room temperature until ready to use
{Valentine sugar cubes}
Prepare homemade sugar cubes after this recipe, and using a drop of chocolate, paste a chocolate heart. Let dry at room temperature.
{Valentine yogurt glasses}
Using an draw pen, outline a heart outside the glass. Melt some chocolate, and draw a chocolate heart inside of the glass with a small brush. Place in the fridge and serve filled with yogurt.
{Apple love}
A knife and some lemon juice is all you need to draw a heart in your apple and avoiding apple rusting.
{Valentine lollipops}
Summary: Heart-shaped homemade lollipops, after this recipe
Preparation: 5 min
Cooking time: 3 min
Yield: 24 lollipops
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar (220 g)
- 3 tsp grenadine
Directions
- Grease a heart-shaped lollipop mold and place it over paper parchment
- In a medium saucepan combine sugar, and grenadine, and bring to boil over medium heat.
- Boil for about 3 minutes. (To check if the caramel is ready, let a spoonful syrup drop inside a glass of cold water, immerse your hand in the cold water, try to form the sugar into a ball, and bring it out of the water. Once out of the water, the syrup will crack if you try to mold it)
- Remove from heat and fill greased lollipop molds with caramel. Place lollipop sticks and let it set at room temperature
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