Old Fashioned Butter Valentine Cookies Dipped in Chocolate
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Description
This is my mother's recipe. She handed it down to me years ago and I have been making it with a few of my own changes for about 25 years now.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup seedless raspberry jam
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons butter
Directions
- 1. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl; set aside.
- 2. Beat the 1 cup butter with the sugar, egg, milk, and vanilla extract in another bowl until well mixed.
- 3. Gradually mix the flour mixture into the butter mixture.
- 4. Shape the dough into a disk; wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- 5. Working with half the dough at a time, roll out dough to about 1/8-inch thick.
- 6. Cut into cookies with a large heart shaped cookie cutter. Repeat with the remaining half of the dough.
- 7. Cut the center of half of the cookies with a smaller heart shaped cookie cutter.
- 8. Place an open centered cookie on top of a whole cookie to form a sandwich. Arrange cookies on an ungreased baking sheet; set aside.
- 9. Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- 10. Place the raspberry jam in a microwave save bowl and heat on high until jam is runny, about 35 seconds.
- 11. Fill the center of the cookies with the jam. Refrigerate cookies for 10 minutes.
- 12. Bake in the preheated oven until the cookies are firm to the touch, 5 to 8 minutes. Cookies will be pale in color.
- 13. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
- 14. Melt the chocolate and 2 tablespoons butter in a microwave-safe glass or ceramic bowl in 30-second intervals, stirring after each melting until smooth, for 1 to 3 minutes, depending on your microwave.
- 15. Spoon chocolate decoratively over half of each cookie.
- 16. Place cookie on a waxed paper lined baking sheet and refrigerate until the chocolate has set, about 15 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
serving: 2 dozen
calories: 201.9 kcal
carbohydrates: 25.9 g
protein: 2.2 g
saturated fat: 6.4 g
cholesterol: 30.7 mg
sodium: 134.3 mg
fiber: 0.7 g
sugar: 13.2 g
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