Valentine’s Day Chocolate Dipped Cookies

5 from 5 votes

Valentine’s Day Chocolate Dipped Cookies

Valentine’s Day is a great excuse to cook some loving indulgent food like these Valentine’s Day Chocolate Dipped Cookies. They make a great romantic gift, perfect to feed to work colleagues, or lovely to share with friends and family. They have a nice biscuit-like crunch to them, and the chocolate gives them a lovely creamy contrast.

Prep Time20

Cook Time30

Total Time50

Course: Afternoon Tea, Dessert

Cuisine: American, british

Servings:

Calories: 130kcal

Author: Louise-Claire Cayzer

Equipment

baking sheet
Cookie cutter any shape but hearts are lovely
Mixing Bowl

Ingredients

Cookies

250 g plain (all purpose) flour plus extra for rolling cookies on
¼ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
150 g coconut palm sugar / caster sugar to give the cookies a whiter colour use caster sugar
2 tablespoon milled linseed/flaxseed mixed with 6 tablespoon water
80 ml sunflower oil
2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Decoration

100 g dark vegan chocolate
100 g white vegan chocolate check Sainsbury's Free From section
50 g freeze dried strawberries or raspberries
50 g chopped nuts optional, pistachios work very well

Metric - American

Instructions

Cookies

Pre heat oven to 180°C / 350°F / Gas Mark 4.
Put the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl. Mix.
Make sure the milled linseed/flaxseed has been mixed with the water. Leave it for a few minutes and it will form a sort of gel.
In a separate bowl to the flour mixture, mix the linseed/flaxssed, oil and vanilla together. Then add to the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Mix well (you can also do this with your hands).
Sprinkle some flour on your kitchen surface. Roll out the dough to about 3mm thick. Add extra flour if dough is still too wet.
Cut the dough into heart shapes or shape of choice using a cookie cutter.
Place the cut cookie dough on a baking tray with baking parchment. Cook for 10-12 minutes. They are ready when they have just a very slight browning to them. Don’t worry if the cookies are still a little soft in the middle - they will harden as they cool.
Put the cookies on a cooling rack. Once cool they can be decorated.

Decoration

Place a glass bowl over simmering water, and put chopped white or dark chocolate in the bowl to melt.
Once melted, dip halve a cookie into the chocolate and immediately sprinkle with the dried fruit. You can also sprinkle with chopped pistachios if desired.
Repeat process with the other colour chocolate on the rest of the cookies. Or you can use both colour chocolates on one cookie and make patterns using a toothpick.

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