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Chocolate Heart Cookies

These Chocolate Heart Cookies with filling are perfect for Valentine's Day!

Ingredients

  • 3 C flour
  • 1 T baking soda
  • 1 tsp cream of tartar
  • 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
  • 1 ½ C powdered sugar
  • 1/2 C cocoa powder
  • 1 large egg room temp
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 C of Ghiradelli white chocolate melting wafers melted
  • 1 disposable piping bag
  • 2 C Strawberry preserves jam
  • 1 heart cookie cutters
  • 1 mini heart cookie cutter

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  • Combine flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar into a large bowl. Whisk ingredients together and set aside.
  • Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar, cocoa powder, egg and vanilla extract until creamy.
  • Slowly add the flour mixture, one cup at a time, stirring to combine after each addition.
  • Once combined, lightly flour a cutting board and knead the dough until combined.
  • Roll dough out to 1 inch thick. Cut 24 heart cookies.
  • Using the mini heart, cut out a heart into the middle of 12 regular size cookies.
  • Bake the cookies for 15 minutes. Once baked, let cookie cool completely.
  • Using a double boiler, melt the white chocolate melting wafers completely.
  • Pour into a piping bag and cut a small part of the tip off. Drizzle the white chocolate onto the cut out heart shaped cookies. Let chocolate completely dry.
  • Using the solid cookie, spread a small amount of the strawberry preserve.
  • Once chocolate is dry, place the cut out cookie on top of the strawberry preserve and lightly push down.