Strawberry Cream Cheese Cookies for Valentine's Day
- 180 grams Cake Flour
- 20 grams Katakuriko
- 20 grams Almond flour
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 30 grams Unsalted butter
- 50 grams Cream cheese
- 1 tsp Lemon juice
- 60 grams Sugar
- 1 Egg yolk (medium)
- 40 grams Strawberry flavored chocolate
- Bring the butter, egg, and cream cheese to room temperature.
- Melt the strawberry flavored chocolate in a double boiler.
- Combine the ingredients (cake flour, katakuriko, almond powder, and salt) in a bowl and instead of sifting, whisk briskly with a whisk.
- Whisk unsalted butter and cream cheese until creamy, add lemon juice and whisk well again.
- Add sugar and whisk until it looks white.
- Add the egg yolk and melted chocolate to the bowl from Step 3 and whisk again.
- Add the dry ingredients from Step 2.
- Using a spatula, mix the dough in a cut and fold motion.
- When the dough is crumbly, pack it together with your hands, and fold in the dough by pressing down with your hands until the dry ingredients have been well integrated.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 170C.
- Take out the chilled dough to form into shapes.
- Roll the dough into coin-sized balls in the palms of your hands.
- Press down on them slightly before organizing them in rows on a parchment-lined baking tray, with space in between.
- Make sure that there are no cracks on the surface of the dough.
- Bake in the preheated 170C oven for 20 minutes (I use an electrical stove).
- Let the cookies cool on the tray, and you're all done.
- You can enjoy them as they are, or coat them in powdered sugar.
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler (if you temper the chocolate, it'll bring out the shine).
- Dip half of the cookies into the chocolate.
- Let the coating harden while resting the cookies on a rack.
- Before the chocolate hardens completely, decorate your cookies with sprinkles or dragees.
- I've added food coloring to the cookies shown here.
- You can also make chocolate-coated cookies by drizzling on the tempered strawberry chocolate with your right hand, while holding a cookie on a fork with your left hand.
- I drew on these cookies with a decoration pen once the coating hardened.
- You can use a toothpick to draw fine lines.
- Little pigs are a cute choice, as well as...
- puppies, pandas, or...
- if you get tired, feel free to draw random designs...
- Please try out different designs.
- Just as a reference, I was able to decorate 10 cookies using 40 g of strawberry flavored chocolate for the coating.
- For the pink colored dough The cookies will have a light hue, so if you want a bolder color like I've shown in Step 11, add diluted food coloring at Step 4.
- (Step 18 continued) If using food coloring, cover the cookies midway through baking to prevent browning.
- Instead of using decorating pens, I used mini chocolate chips for the eyes.
- These piggies are looking sexy with their falsies.
flour, katakuriko, flour, salt, butter, cream cheese, lemon juice, sugar, egg yolk, chocolate
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/158932-strawberry-cream-cheese-cookies-for-valentines-day (may not work)