These Chocolate Coronary heart Sandwich Cookies stuffed with White Chocolate Ganache have been my try to wean the household off of Oreos. Sure, this loopy household has an Oreo dependancy, however these Valentine’s cookies trumped them by a mile!
These Valentine Cookies are further festive with their coronary heart form and peek-a-boo window that may be adorned with festive sprinkles. They’re an ideal vacation deal with for your loved ones, buddies, or co-workers!
Why You Should Make
I made this similar recipe for chocolate sandwich cookies eons in the past for a vacation cookie change. On the time, I dubbed them home made Oreos regardless of the upgraded white chocolate filling.
- When you like Oreos, these are one million occasions tastier!!
- You’ll get delicate home made chocolate cookies and white chocolate filling in each chunk!
- These will be personalized with cookie-cutter shapes for any event.
With Valentine’s Day simply across the nook, I believed I’d glam them up for the vacation. Digging out each coronary heart cookie cutter I may discover, I made chocolate coronary heart sandwich cookies as an alternative of a easy spherical model. The addition of sprinkles helped to make these gems much more festive!
Ingredient Notes
- Kitchen Staples – Sugar, Flour, Salt, Baking Soda
- Butter – At room temperature for simple incorporation. I used salted butter.
- Vanilla Extract – All the time use actual vanilla extract, by no means artificially flavored. I take advantage of the Nielssen-Massey model.
- Cocoa Powder – Common, not Dutch course of.
- Heavy Cream – 36% Milkfat
- Corn Syrup – Makes for a shiny ganache.
- Sprinkles – To complete if making a cut-out in your sandwich cookies.
Skilled Suggestions
- This versatile cookie dough recipe will be reduce into soccer shapes for the Tremendous Bowl, rounds for copycat Oreos, or any form your coronary heart wishes.
- The actual Oreo filling almost certainly doesn’t have any white chocolate and even actual butter listed below its checklist of substances, however I’m positive you gained’t balk at my substitutions!
- PRO-Tip: If the dough is just too delicate to roll, place it within the fridge for a half-hour or extra and take a look at once more.
- Your yield will range relying on the scale of your cookie cutters.
- I dipped a few of the freshly crammed cookie edges in Valentine’s coloured sprinkles. With a few of the others, I had reduce out a coronary heart window, so matched these with a similar-sized non-windowed counterparts. Instantly after filling these, I added a dusting of sprinkles to the uncovered frosting within the window space.
- PRO-Tip: As a substitute of flour, use cocoa powder to roll out your cookies. This can hold them from getting powerful from an excessive amount of flour and in addition protect the darkish chocolate coloring.
- Preserve this recipe for chocolate coronary heart sandwich cookies readily available and swap out the shapes and coordinating sprinkles for any event!
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Elements
Cookies:
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ½ cups flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Ganache Filling:
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 ½ tablespoons corn syrup
- ¾ pound white chocolate, melted
- 2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- Sprinkles, to complete (non-obligatory)
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350º. Line baking sheets with parchment and put aside.
- Cream collectively the butter and sugar till fluffy. Beat within the egg and vanilla till nicely mixed.
- Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt collectively after which slowly combine into butter and sugar combination till mixed, scraping down the perimeters of the bowl as wanted.
- If the dough is just too delicate, wrap in plastic and chill till it is a good rolling consistency. You might have to return the dough to the fridge to re-chill all through the slicing course of.
- Evenly mud the work floor with cocoa powder and roll the dough ⅛-¼-inch thick.
- Utilizing a heart-shaped cookie cutter, reduce shapes, and place them on baking sheets. You may make cut-out home windows on half of the cookies with a smaller heart-shaped cookie cutter, if desired. Place the cut-out items on the baking sheets, too. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Let cookies cool for a couple of minutes, then take away to the cooling rack.
- Make the ganache by heating cream and corn syrup in a saucepan. Add melted chocolate and stir to mix. Add butter and vanilla and blend until easy. Pour right into a heatproof bowl, cowl with plastic, and refrigerate, stirring often, till thick, about 30-60 minutes.
- To assemble cookies, beat the ganache with an electrical mixer until gentle and fluffy. Put ganache in Ziploc bag and seal. Lower the nook off the bag and pipe the ganache onto the flat aspect of 1 cookie. High with a second cookie to type a sandwich.
- Dip edges in sprinkles or sprinkle uncovered cutout filling with sprinkles.
- Chill cookies until the ganache is ready.
Notes
Yield varies relying on dimension of cookie cutters.
Vitamin Info:
Yield:
16
Serving Dimension:
1 cookie
Quantity Per Serving:
Energy: 296Complete Fats: 12gSaturated Fats: 7gTrans Fats: 0gUnsaturated Fats: 4gLdl cholesterol: 28mgSodium: 151mgCarbohydrates: 44gFiber: 1gSugar: 27gProtein: 4g
Chocolate Sandwich Cookies circa 2010. Pictures and textual content up to date in 2018,
