WHITE CHOCOLATE VALENTINE'S SUGAR COOKIES

White Chocolate Valentine's Day Cookies

Last year I made Valentine's Day cookies and iced them with royal icing. Though royal icing is easy to work with, it's not my favourite for flavour or texture.
unlike me, you should remember not to stack these cookies as the white chocolate marks up easily...see all the smudges?

I love chocolate and decided to try my hand at decorating some sugar cookies with tinted white chocolate. I know that chocolate is temperamental and adding water to it is asking for disaster, so I used powdered food colouring. I added red powdered colour and of course it never really turned a deep red. I didn't really care though.

when in doubt, just drizzle with way more white chocolate! you can't go wrong

I used parchment cones to pipe and flood the cookies. Initially, everything was going fine...I melted the white chocolate and stirred it until it was completely smooth. I poured the tinted white chocolate into the cones...and then I realized how runny it really was. The chocolate dripped out the tiny point of the cones almost immediately. I worked quickly and realized that piping wasn't going to be so easy after all.

see all the bumps from the flooding? these are easily remedied by hiding them with more drizzled white chocolate ;P

I did my best at outlining and then flooding the hearts. The chocolate didn't really flatten out completely and looked a tad bumpy but I didn't want to tempt fate and start messing with it so I left it. I let it dry and then decided I wanted to outline with just plain white chocolate (no tint) and realized I had to come up with a simple design because the chocolate was way runnier than royal icing. I piped some lacy dots; just touching around the edges of the hearts and it seemed okay.

The flavour of these white chocolate cookies totally rocks compared to royal icing cookies.

Check out here the MS sugar cookie recipe I used or if you prefer, a totally decadent Vanilla Bean Butter cookie. I used Callebaut White Chocolate for decorating. Only the best for my sweetie pies: Bebe and Bib thought they were delicious!