Valentine Cookies - Sugar Spun Run

Updated at: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:13:21 GMT

Step 1

Prep Time

Step 2

30 minutes minutes

Step 3

Combine butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer (or you may use a large bowl and an electric hand mixer) and beat until well-creamed.

Step 4

Stir in vanilla extract and salt, stirring until well-combined, and scrape down the sides of the bowl using a rubber spatula to ensure are well-incorporated.

Step 5

Add egg yolk and beat until combined

Step 6

With mixer on medium-low speed, gradually add flour until well-incorporated (you will definitely need to scrape down the sides and the bottom of the bowl several times for this, as the mixture is fairly dry and crumbs tend to settle at the bottom of the bowl).

Step 7

Transfer dough to clean surface and use your hands to form it into a cohesive ball.

Step 8

Flatten into a disk (about 1" thick), cover with clear wrap, and chill for 15 minutes.

Step 9

Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.

Step 10

Once dough has chilled, transfer it to a clean, lightly floured surface and use a lightly floured rolling pin to roll out to ¼" thickness.

Step 11

Lightly flour your cookie cutters and cut out your shapes, transferring them to ungreased cookie sheet.

Step 12

Once you have cut out all of the shapes that you can, be sure to re-combine the scraps and roll out and cut out again to get the maximum number of cookies from your dough.

Step 13

Bake on 350F for 10-12 minutes (this is how long it took me to bake my 2" heart cookies, you may need less time for smaller cookies or longer if you are using larger cookie cutters -- look for the edges to be just beginning to turn lightly golden brown) and allow cookies to cool completely before dipping in chocolate.

Step 14

Prep chocolate by placing dark chocolate melting wafers in one bowl and white chocolate melting wafers in another and preparing according to package .

Step 15

Once chocolate is melted, line a cookie sheet with wax paper and, firmly holding the base of each cookie, dip the surface into the chocolate.

Step 16

Immediately after dipping, place on wax paper lined cookie sheet (chocolate side up) and immediately sprinkle with nonpareils/sprinkles. Repeat, alternating with white and dark chocolate, until all cookies are covered with chocolate.

Step 17

Allow chocolate to harden before serving.

Step 18

Notes

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