#WhiteChocolateHearts

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Red Velvet Valentines Cookies

Love is in the air, and so is the sweet aroma of these red velvet Valentine cookies! Soft, moist, and bursting with rich red velvet flavor, they’re topped with creamy white chocolate hearts for an irresistible treat. Perfect for Valentine’s Day, bridal showers, or just because—you deserve a little sweetness every day. These cookies are as pretty as they are delicious, and they’ll have everyone falling head over heels!

Red Velvet Valentine Cookies

Makes 20 cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup + 1 tbsp unsalted butter (125g) *room temp

1/2 cup brown sugar (100g)

1/3 cup sugar (75g)

Large egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

1+1/2 tsp or more of red food coloring

1+2/3 cups flour (200g)

1/2 to 1 tbsp cocoa powder (9 to 15g)

1 + ½ tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

A pinch of salt

White chocolate for the “hearts” or white chocolate chips

Instructions

Using a stand mixer or an electric hand mixer, cream butter and sugars until fluffy.

Add in the egg, vanilla and a little bit of red food coloring, and mix until combined, remember to scrape the bowl down and mix again.

Mix in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. *If you’re JUST using white chocolate chips (not making the hearts) mix them in the dough in this step*

Roll the dough into 20 cookie dough balls (around 1+½ tbsp each one).

Let the cookie dough balls rest in the freezer for about an hour or in the fridge overnight.

Preheat the oven to 356F/180C.

Carefully transfer to a baking sheet with parchment/wax paper and bake for 9-12 minutes.

While the cookies are baking, make the chocolate hearts using melted white chocolate and a heart shaped silicone mold, leave them in your freezer (I found these silicone molds on amazon and they have the one I used).

Once baked, leave them to cool on the tray for about 15 minutes and after that you can add the heart chocolates.

Let them cool for 10 minutes more and ENJOY!