Valentine's Cookies Recipe | How To Decorate Cookies For Valentine's Day | Cookies Recipe | Varun
Ingredients
- Refined flour200 g
- Butter100 g
- Sugar50 g + 1 ½ cups
- Vanilla½
- Egg1 + 2 tbsp
- Cocoa powder1 tsp
- Food colouring
- Flour1 tbsp
- Lime1 tbsp
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix the refined flour, butter and caster sugar until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the vanilla bean scrapings and the egg yolk (or milk), and bring together into a dough.
- Divide the dough into 3 portions. Mix cocoa powder and cold water into one, red food colouring into a second, and leave the third plain. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Roll each dough into a thin sheet, cut into shapes, and place on a baking tray.
- Bake at 200°C for 12 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool to room temperature.
- In a bowl, beat the powdered sugar, corn flour, lime juice and egg whites together. Add the chilled water after a while and beat for 8–10 minutes.
- Divide the icing into 2 parts, colour one with red food colouring, and cover with a damp cloth.
- Transfer each icing to a separate bowl and add 1 tablespoon of water to each.
- Fill piping bags with the icings and decorate the cookies. Leave them for 30 minutes before serving.
Summarized from Get Curried's video. Watch it for the details.
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