Valentine's Cookies

Valentine's Day is in the air. Florists are so busy packaging all the glamourous and romantic valentine bouquets, shops are filled with lots of exotic valentine chocolates and goodies.

Traditionally on this day (14 February), lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery.

Joining the bang-wagon, I made some valentine's cookies with my DDs as they are still on Lunar New Year vacation.

Here's wishing everyone a Happy Valentine's Day.


Cutters that I used for this cookie


Ingredients:
90g butter (room temperature)
60g sugar
1 egg (room temperature and lightly beaten)
180g cake flour

1/4 tsp chocolate emulco + 1 tsp flour
some melted chocolate

Method:
1. Cream butter with sugar till pale and fluffy.
2. Add in beaten egg and cream till well mixed.
3. Fold in the flour till a dough is formed.
4. Remove 80g of the dough and mix in the chocolate emulco and flour. Knead till color is even.
5. Chill both doughs for 45 minutes.
6. Shape the chilled doughs accordingly with cookie cutters.
7. Bake at 175C for 18 - 25 minutes.
8. Use melted chocolate to scribble "LOVE", "HONEY" or whatever message you want to convey to your darling but make sure they are short and sweet as there's not much space on the cookies for you to write too much.