Yeah Valentine's Day is over commercialised, slightly sickening and eye wateringly expensive if you really buy into it. But it's also an excellent excuse to bake some treats for you, your significant other, your friends - anyone really. Last year I shared some baking inspiration but this year I've got my very own recipe to share with you - Red Velvet Cookies!
The traditional red velvet cake is rich and dense, so to me that translates perfectly into a cookie. Of course, red velvet wouldn't be red velvet without tangy cream cheese frosting, and is there anything more decadent than an iced cookie? I think not. So the cookies are topped with beautiful layer of icing, and there's also some white chocolate chips hidden within the cookie. Because a cookie isn't a cookie without some chocolate chips.
Red Velvet Cookies
Cookies
290g Plain Flour
45g Icing Sugar
2tsp Corn Flour
170g Butter
200g Caster Sugar
1 Egg + 1 Egg White
1tsp Lemon Juice
Red Food Colouring
100g White Chocolate (chopped)
Cream Cheese Icing
60g Butter
115g Cream Cheese
320g Icing Sugar
1tsp Vanilla Extract
1. Beat the butter and the sugar together (on high if you're using a mixer) until light and fluffy
2. Whilst beating (on medium), add the egg, egg white, lemon juice and food colouring
3. Turn the mixer down to slow and add the flour and corn flour
4. Finally mix in the chopped white chocolate
5. Wrap in cling film and chill for at least two hours (this really matters!!)
6. Preheat the oven to 180oC and grease and line a tray
7. Place your heart shaped cookie cutter on the tray and press a ball of cookie dough into the shape
8. When it's flattened, press it out and flip it over, so the flat side is on top
9. Alternatively, you can just put little mounds of the cookie dough on the tray
10. Bake for 9 minutes, leave to cool on the tray for a minute and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely
11. For the icing, whip the butter and cream cheese together until light and fluffy
12. Add the icing sugar and the vanilla extract and mix until smooth.
13. Pipe the icing onto the cookies once they are completely cool
I really should learn that I must not read your blog whilst hungry. I love red velvet and these look wonderful. Because it is valentines a great excuse to make them, Lucy
ReplyDeleteI love red velvet. These look perfect (and yummy)! :)
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