Valentines Thumbprint Cookies Kids Love to Eat
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Every bite gives you that sweet taste with an even sweeter chocolate flavor to go along with it! Whip these up for Valentine’s Day and they’re certain to be a hit!
Valentine’s Day Thumbprint Cookies
Valentines Thumbprint Cookies
These cookies are a new twist on an old favorite. Thumbprint cookies have been around for years, but these Valentine cookies with red dough, dipped in white chocolate and sprinkles, with white chocolate pink hearts, are the best take on them I’ve ever eaten.
Not only are they pretty to look at, and will brighten up any table or buffet, they’re really delicious too! Talk about a great surprise for your special Valentine, this is sure to please. Put this recipe in your favorites, because you’ll want to make this one for all the Valentine days to come!
How to Make Valentine Thumbprint Cookies
The ingredients you will need to make these Valentine Thumbprint Cookies are in this list below. However, I have the full ingredients and recipe to print out towards the bottom of the page.
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Valentine Thumbprint Cookies
This recipe calls for a few ingredients and is so much fun to make!
What’s Needed:
- 3 sticks of butter – softened
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of Vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups of flour – sifted
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1 package of White Chocolate Almond Bark
- 1 bottle of Red food coloring gel
- 1 tube of Neon pink food coloring gel
- Assorted Valentines Sprinkles – we used red, pink and white
Let’s start baking…
Easy Cookie Recipe
In the mixing bowl of an electric mixer, blend the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add the vanilla and blend.
In a separate bowl sift the flour and salt together, and add it to the mixing bowl with the butter mixture a little at a time until all the flour is added, and blended well.
Add the red food coloring gel, starting with about 5 drops, and blend until the dough is all red.
If you want the dough a darker color, add another drop and blend, until the desired color is achieved
Roll the dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, and place them on a parchment lined cookie sheet about an inch apart.
When the cookie sheet is full, use your thumb or knuckle, and press a ‘thumbprint’ into the center of the cookies, making an indentation.
Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the cookies start to turn golden brown. When the cookies are done, remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.
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When cookies are cool, melt 4 squares of the white chocolate almond bark
When the white chocolate is melted, fill the centers of the cookies with the white chocolate. When all the centers have been filled, dip the bottoms of the cookies in the melted white chocolate, and immediately in the sprinkles.
Set the cookies on the parchment paper to let the chocolate set.
Melt the rest of the white chocolate in the microwave on 15 second intervals, and stir between intervals.
When the chocolate is melted, remove it from the microwave, and add 1 – 2 drops of the Neon pink gel food coloring to the white chocolate, and stir well to combine the food coloring into the chocolate.
Place the pink chocolate in a squeeze bottle with a tip, and squeeze heart shapes out on parchment paper to decorate the cookies. (you can make the hearts large or small, or some of both)
Drizzle the remaining pink chocolate over the cookies as shown.
Let the cookies sit for at least one hour before moving them or serving them, to allow the chocolate to set.
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After the chocolate is set, serve, and Enjoy!
NOTE: The White Chocolate Almond Bark is
Keep adding a drop or two of cream until the chocolate thins, and is easily stirred. You’ll find the White Chocolate Almond Bark on the baking a
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Valentine’s Day Thumbprint Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 sticks of butter – softened
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of Vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups of flour – sifted
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1 package of White Chocolate Almond Bark
- 1 bottle of Red food coloring gel – See link
- 1 tube of Neon pink food coloring gel – See link
- Assorted Valentines Sprinkles – we used red, pink and white
- Parchment paper
- Cookie sheets
- Spatula's
- Electric mixer
- Small squeeze bottle – to drizzle chocolate
Instructions
- In the mixing bowl of an electric mixer, blend the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla and blend.
- In a separate bowl sift the flour and salt together, and add it to the mixing bowl with the butter mixture a little at a time until all the flour is added, and blended well.
- Add the Red food coloring gel, starting with about 5 drops, and blend until the dough is all red.
- If you want the dough a darker color, add another drop and blend, until the desired color is achieved.
- Roll the dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, and place them on a Parchment lined cookie sheet about an inch apart.
- When the cookie sheet is full, use your thumb or knuckle, and press a 'thumbprint' into the center of the cookies, making an indentation.
- Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the cookies start to turn golden brown. When the cookies are done, remove them to a wire rack to cook completely.
- When cookies are cool, melt 4 squares of the white chocolate almond bark,in the microwave on 15 second intervals, until it's smooth and creamy, stirring between intervals.
- When the white chocolate is melted, fill the centers of the cookies with the white chocolate. When all the centers have been filled, dip the bottoms of the cookies in the melted white chocolate, and immediately in the sprinkles.
- Sit the cookies on parchment paper to let the chocolate set.
- Melt the rest of the white chocolate in the microwave on 15 second intervals, and stir between intervals.
- When the chocolate is melted, remove it from the microwave, and add 1 – 2 drops of the Neon pink gel food coloring to the white chocolate, and stir well to combine the food coloring into the chocolate.
- Place the pink chocolate in a squeeze bottle with a tip, and squeeze heart shapes out on parchment paper to decorate the cookies. (you can make the hearts large or small, or some of both)
- Drizzle the remaining pink chocolate over the cookies as shown.
- Let the cookies set for at least one hour before moving them or serving them, to allow the chocolate to set.
- After the chocolate is set, serve, and Enjoy!
Notes
*Nutritional information is a calculated guesstimate. Please note that this can change with different brands and modifications you may make to the recipe. For the most accurate information, use a nutritional calculator with the exact brands and measurements you’re using with each recipe.
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