As of: February 12, 2024, 1:00 p.m
By: Sandra Keck
Baking is love and as we all know, the way to the heart is through the stomach.
With the red velvet cookies you can conjure up sweet messages that come from the heart.
Red hearts as far as the eye can see.
Bouquets of flowers and chocolate pralines are piled up in the shops.
Valentine's Day is just around the corner and the search for the perfect gift for your loved one begins.
But how about something homemade this year?
Whether hearts made of puff pastry or a “blooming” snack in the form of a “blooming onion” with sweet and savory treats, you are not only giving something to munch on, but also a bit of love and passion.
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The Valentine's Day recipe from Simply Tasty editor Sandra is seductively red and wonderfully creamy.
The crispy, velvety red cookies are captivating at first glance and put a smile on everyone's face, whether it's your partner, your best friend or the whole family.
Simply Tasty editor Sandra delivers the perfect recipe for Valentine's Day with her red velvet cookies.
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Inside the cookies there is a delicate cream cheese filling, which also adds that certain something to the refreshing lemon cheesecake cookies.
Both cookies deliver a delicious interplay of flavors that melt in your mouth - an unforgettable Valentine's Day gift, because as we all know, the way to the heart is through the stomach.
For sweet cookies with a creamy filling you need these ingredients:
Red cookies for Valentine's Day?
Yes, please!
The red velvet cookies are not only visually eye-catching, but also melt in your mouth.
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Red Velvet Cookie Dough:
220 g butter, soft
50g brown sugar
150g sugar
1 pinch of salt
1 egg (M)
Red food coloring
290g flour
10 g cocoa
1 teaspoon Baking powder
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Cream cheese filling:
250 g cream cheese
50g powdered sugar
0.5 tsp vanilla extract
What flavor does Red Velvet have?
If you think that the red color in the well-known Red Velvet Cake, on which the cookies are loosely based, indicates a berry or fruity taste, you are wrong.
The original American recipe does not contain any fruit, but rather beetroot.
Among other things, this creates the reddish color, which is intensified by a chemical reaction between cocoa powder and buttermilk.
The taste of Red Velvet is reminiscent of a combination of bitter cocoa and sweet vanilla.
Preparation is easy thanks to these step-by-step instructions:
For the cream cheese filling:
Mix together the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla extract.
Roll a tablespoon of the cream into balls, place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper and let them solidify in the freezer for at least an hour.
For the cookie dough:
Beat the butter together with brown sugar, 150 grams of sugar and salt in a food processor for five minutes until white.
Stir in egg and food coloring.
Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa, sift and fold into the butter-egg mix with a wooden spoon in just a few hand strokes.
The dough should no longer stick.
Preheat oven to 175 °C fan oven.
Line a baking tray with baking paper.
Form one to two tablespoons of dough into a ball per cookie and then flatten it.
Place a frozen cream cheese ball in the middle and seal the dough tightly.
Form the dough into a ball again.
Do the same with the remaining dough and chill for another 30 minutes.
Place dough balls spaced apart on the prepared baking sheet and bake until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
Let the cookies cool on a wire rack and enjoy!
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Inside the red velvet cookies there is a creamy cream cheese core that will melt the hearts of foodies.
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Regardless of whether you are married or single, Simply Tasty loves its community to eat and is therefore giving away these sweet red velvet cupcakes as a little Valentine's Day gift.
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