Photo of cookie recipe for February 14 - Valentine's Day
How to express love to family and friends? You can give a gift that is made with love. In this case, the gift should be special. Give a valentine - trite, give an edible valentine - a win-win option. Heart, beautiful and sweet, better than any words will tell about true feelings.
In order to gift a loved one out the most beautiful, you need a little time and imagination. Pre-prepared sweet ornaments and heart-shaped hearts for cutting out cookies are also suitable.
The decoration of the cookie can be voluminous, for example,from the marzipan mass. For beginners hostesses the variant with a multi-colored glaze on the cookies will be no less beautiful, but more simple in execution. If desired, the design of cookies can be complicated by the purchased decorative powder for culinary products.
It is worthwhile to think about packaging such agift. You can fill them with a decorative basket, and you can pack each in a separate transparent envelope, and attach ribbons and congratulations - you will get individual souvenirs for loved ones and friends.
Cookies with frosting on Valentine's Day
Ingredients for biscuits on February 14
1 cup (250 grams) of softened butter
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup or honey
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon of soda
1.5 teaspoons of vanilla or half a sachet of vanillin
1 egg
4 cups of flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt
Cooking method:
Beat the oil with a mixer at high speed
Add sugar, whisk until dissolved in sugar for 3-5 minutes. Add corn syrup, soda slaked with lemon juice, vanilla and eggs.
Combine 4 glasses of flour and a quarter of a teaspoon of salt. Add to the mixture with butter.
Knead the dough. Put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Get the dough, divide it into three parts (so it's more convenient to work with the dough). Work with each part of the test in turn.
Sprinkle the table with flour. Roll out the dough 3-4 mm thick. Molds, a glass or a knife to cut out cookies of the desired shape. The form of a valentine is a heart. By the Valentine's Day hearts, decorated with red glaze, will look especially impressive. Cover the baking sheet with foil or parchment for baking. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes until the cookie has turned golden at the edges. Pull out the cookies from the oven. Let cool, remove from the baking tray. It is better to shift to a grate. Before decorating the cookie should completely cool down.
Ingredients for sugar glaze:
2.5 glasses of powdered sugar
3 tablespoons milk (may need another spoon)
2 tablespoons softened butter
½ teaspoons of almond extract
Food colors (red or pink)
Method for making cookies for Valentine's Day
In a deep bowl, mix powder, milk, butter andalmond extract. Beat the mixer at medium speed. If necessary, add a little more milk. The glaze should be slightly more liquid than sour cream. It should be easy to apply, while not draining from the cookie. Divide the icing into three parts. The first part will remain white. In the second add, stirring, a little red dye to turn pink. The third part can be made bright red.
For the application of glaze, a confectionery bag, a syringe, a tight clean bag with a cut tip or special bottles with a special nozzle for simple glaze application is suitable.
Cover the biscuits with icing. You can make a single-colored fill with glaze, or make marble stains, an inscription or a picture. Immediately after applying the glaze on top, the biscuits can be sprinkled with a small dragee or special decorative powder. To cover the glaze turned out neat it is better to move from the edges to the center. First, outline the contour with glaze, wait a little until it freezes and then fill the contour. For a beautiful marble effect you will need: dyes of two contrasting colors and a toothpick. From the contour to the center draw alternately different colors of heart shape. Between the lines there should not be a large gap, otherwise the colors will not mix. Toothpicks gently make the stains. Glaze should be allowed to freeze. To do this, cookies should be placed on a horizontal surface with one layer a short distance from each other.
By complementing the cookies with beautiful packaging, you can get the perfect gift for your favorite or favorite sweet tooth. The main thing is not to forget to say the kindest words and sincere confessions of love.
Bon Appetit!
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