Valentine Surprise Cookies

 Valentine Surprise Cookies

This is how my Wednesday started: I was deep in thought during my morning commute drive.

Deep in thoughts filled of cookies and Valentine’s day. (Wouldn’t the world would be a little more peaceful if more people shared my thoughts!?)

Originally I thought of making chocolate dipped graham crackers, somehow incorporating a surprise , then making them valentinesy.

Valentine Surprise Cookies

Hmm…

Then I thought about sugar cookies and those cute cookie cutters I bought last year with good intentions…

Eventually I got to these cookies.

Valentine Surprise Cookies

They are really pretty easy to pull together.

Each finished cookie is composed of 3 cookies (hey, they’re small and after all, it’s Valentine’s Day).

The center cookie is hollowed out (prior to baking) and filled with a surprise. Everyone loves surprises.

Valentine Surprise Cookies

After you have dipped the cookies in CandiQuik that will be used for the tops and bottoms…

Valentine Surprise Cookies

Pipe, top, fill, pipe, top with final cookie. Voila.

Valentine Surprise Cookies

No one will ever know.

They might just wonder why you are giving them a 3-in-1 cookie.

Valentine Surprise Cookies

Feel free to make any shape your heart desires. I just thought the little love letter envelopes and hearts were adorable.

Valentine Surprise Cookies

 

Valentine Surprise Cookies
 
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A fun Valentine cookie which is composed of three sugar cookies, one cookie has a hollow center that is filled with the surprise!
Author:
Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • COOKIES:
  • ¾ cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • DECORATION:
  • 1 package Vanilla CANDIQUIK® Coating
  • Assorted candy, Biscoff Spread, Nutella, etc. (to fill cookies)
  • Edible marker (ex: Americolor Gourmet Writer)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt.
  3. Roll out dough on a well-floured surface approx. ¼ inch thick. Cut into shapes with cookie cutter. For the middle cookies: cut into shapes and cut a hole in the center of the dough.
  4. Bake 6 to 8 minutes. Cool completely.
  5. Melt Vanilla Candiquik according to package directions. Dip the front side of each top & bottom cookie in Candiquik. Place on wax paper to set. (Leave middle cookies uncoated.)
  6. Place remaining Candiquik in a piping bag or plastic bag with one corner cut off.
  7. Pipe Candiquik around the edge of the bottom cookie; press middle cookie on top: fill with assorted candy or desired spread; pipe Candiquik around the edge of the middle cookie and press on the top cookie.
  8. To create envelope decoration: pipe Candiquik as shown in the photo. Decorate with edible markers.
Notes/Tips
TIP: carve the center of the middle cookie out once it is on the baking sheet. It may be hard to pick up otherwise.

 

You could fill your cookies with Mini M&M’s or really any small candy… but let me give you a few other ideas:

Valentine Surprise Cookies

ya’ll know I love Biscoff…

Valentine Surprise Cookies

Any Nutella fans out there?

Valentine Surprise Cookies

Sprinkles are dang cute, too.

Valentine Surprise Cookies

Or buttercream frosting, ooh – frosting would be good!

What would you fill your cookies with?

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

Linked to: Mrs. Happy Homemaker, Inside Bru Crew Life, Pint Sized Baker, DJ’s Sugar Shack, Printabelle, Buns in my Oven, Sweet Bella Roos, Chocolate, Chocolate, & More, Gooseberry Patch

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