Valentine's Day, or as it is called, St. Valentine's Day - it's a great occasion not only to recognize the beloved in your feelings, but... have fun! So, together with the crumbs choose, for whom we prepare a surprise (of course, for the Pope!), Dress apron and get to work. And for our part we assure you that sweet a present for our recipe will simply delightful!
chocolate heart
Ingredients: For the dough: Honey - 0.3 v, baking powder -. 1 tbsp. l, small brown sugar -. 2/3 art, cayenne pepper -. pinch, wheat flour - 3.5 v, Clove powder -. 0.5 hours.. L, egg - 1 units, butter -. 100 g, ground ginger - 1 hr. l.
for decoration: chocolate black - 120 g, white chocolate - 120 g butter for lubricating trays - 1 tbsp. l, butter -. 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking method: prepare the dough. Beat butter with sugar and eggs. Add honey. Pour into a bowl of sifted flour, baking powder, ginger, cloves and cayenne pepper. Stir everything with a mixer.
On floured surface roll out the dough into a layer thickness 6 mm. Preheat oven to 180 ° C. Lubricating oil, two small pan. Cookie cutters cut out hearts and shift the dough on a baking them. Put the pan in a refrigerator for 30 min. Then bake in a preheated 200 degree oven for 8-10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Melt separately in a water bath black and white chocolate. Without removing the grill, cover half the cookies with dark chocolate, the second half - white. Pour remaining chocolate in cooking bag 2 with a thin nozzle, and with it the dark decorate cookies with white chocolate and vice versa. We give heart to cool.
Heart trapdoor
Ingredients:flour - 1 tablespoon butter -. 150 g, egg - 1 units, almonds -. 1 tablespoon sugar -. 2.5 v. l, salt -. pinch, apricot jam - 50 g strawberry jam - 50 g Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet.
Cooking method: almond omitted in boiling water for 3 minutes, then discard in a colander, give little cool. Clear the nucleus of the upper skin. Dried almonds with paper towels.
With the blender to shred almond powder. We separate the white from the yolk. The oil is cooled in advance. Mix the flour with mandelic crumbs, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt. Add the sliced small pieces of butter and egg yolk. Knead the dough, wrap in foil and put in the refrigerator for at least 1 h.
On the surface of the sprinkled flour roll out the dough into a layer thickness of 0.3 cm. Cookie cutters cut out the hearts of the test. Half of the resulting heart neatly cut the middle, leaving the edge width of 0.5 cm. One side of the grease lightly beaten egg whites. For each whole heart lay heart to cut out the middle-oiled side down. Slightly pressed to Hearts stuck together.
Preheat oven to 175 ° C.. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil. Spread on him cookies and bake for 10 minutes. We obtain from the oven and give cool. Half the cooled hearts fill with strawberry jam, the second half - apricot. Sprinkle the cookies with powdered sugar.
Heart in the glaze
Ingredients: flour - 300 g corn starch - 2 tsp baking powder - 1 tsp, salt - pinch butter - 70-80 g, sunflower oil - 4 tbsp.. L, sugar - 100-150 g egg - 2 pieces, vanilla -. ¼ tsp almond extract - 0.5 tsp
For the glaze: powdered sugar - 200 g of hot water - 4 tablespoons, food dye food (how to make a natural dye for the frosting, see here).
Cooking method: mix of flour salt, leavening agent, starch.
Butter whisk, add vegetable oil, sugar, about 5 minutes, beat until a white foam. At the end of whipping add the eggs, vanilla, almond extract. The dough is rolled into a ball, cool in the refrigerator for about an hour. Oven heated up to 180 degrees. The dough is rolled out into a layer of 1 cm thickness, cut hearts cookie cutters. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. Ready hearts cool.
prepare glaze. We mix the powder and water, put on a small fire. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the frosting is smooth. About 5-7 minutes. Add to the glaze color. Top decorate each heart glaze (so she quickly dried up, can be a little dry in the oven literally 1 minute to put in the cooling oven and take care not to overcook the liver, but the icing harden). And what of the glaze to make a truly fantastic patterns, watch the video.
