We all know and (secretly) adore the registers of sugar cookies that, when cut, reveal a design in the center of cookies. But as a professional baker, I could not resist making a version of the crop. So before Valentine's Day, I started working on a copy recipe containing a sweet red heart inside a lemon cookie dough. Here, lovers: Slices and valentine cookie baking.
And the best part? Once you master the technique for these cookies, the sky is the limit for using different openings and colors to make sliced sugar and baking with (almost) any design.
Photographs by Patrick Marinello; Food styling by Lydia Fournier
Before we begin to redefing, let's first distribute the recipe as it is written. These cookies have an embedded heart in each religion and are a fun, festive way to spread love. You mix a dough, divide it in half and paint half the dough with food paint. (I used These plant -based food colors.) Then, flip the dough with colored, cut Heart With cookie cutters, collect hearts to make a long heart -shaped register and cool until strong. Finally, wrap the cold “tower” of the hearts in the remaining dough to form a neat cylinder before rolling in sparkling sugarcooling (again), slices and baking.
I know it feels like many steps, but I promise it's not as involved as it sounds. The dough is quick to flip, cutting and pile is surprisingly effective, and the simple dough remains soft, so it is easy to wrap around the cold heart log. Here are my tips to help you perfect the recipe.
When flipping the dough before cutting any shape, be in accordance with the thickness of the dough. If you start with a uniform thick dough, you will be able to accumulate the tower with the level of cuttings. This, in turn, helps relieve cutting. I suggest rolling the dough about 1/4 “thick.
Photographs by Patrick Marinello; Food styling by Lydia Fournier
When choosing a cutter for the form at the Cookie Center, Choose a simple form and a small cutterabout 1 1/2 “in 1 3/4” in diameter. Hearts, stars, a basic flower design, or single numbers or letters are all good options. The basic shapes without any complicated angle are the easiest to finish with the simple dough, which will result in the best definition of the embedded pattern after baking. Save Snowflake for another time!
The most critical part of this technique is to Be careful of the temperature of the dough in color. If, at any moment, you think the dough becomes too soft to work with it, transfer it to the refrigerator to cool for 15 or 20 minutes. When you try to create a 9 “up to 10” register of heart disruption, things can quickly go from profit on the unknown border line if you are working with dough that is very warm. Believe me, a little cooling goes a lot in creating the sharper shapes.
Photographs by Patrick Marinello; Food styling by Lydia Fournier
Photographs by Patrick Marinello; Food styling by Lydia Fournier
As the heart register is cold, divide the remaining simple dough into six pieces and use your hands to flip each piece in a cylinder that is 9 “to 10” (the same length as the heart log). Remove the cold heart register from the refrigerator and attach the plain dough logs to it, evenly dividing them and gently pressing to stick. Press carefully and flatten the simple logs, softening them with your fingers until they close the hearts.
Monitoring the dough temperature also applies to the fully collected cylinder. Make sure you allow the cold dough register until it is too strongAt least one hour and up to three days, before cut and baked.
Photographs by Patrick Marinello; Food styling by Lydia Fournier
Of course, you can adjust this recipe to your liking with colors and other tastes. The recipe is written for a lemon flavor dough with red hearts, but it would be just as easy to create yellow stars with a almond flavor dough, or pink flowers flavored with a touch of roses. The recipe was developed using natural -basedBut the coloring of liquid food or gel can be used; adjust the quantity as needed. The dough can also be made gluten without using Gluten -free mass for measuring flour – No other necessary replacement.
Whether you are young for sliced cookies and baking or an experienced professional who is impressing with Short and enjoying World Peace Cookies 2.0 For years, I hope you will give the latest addition to our slice formation and baking. Once you own this technique, you will find yourself personalizing the cluster after the group for each occasion.
Photo covered by Patrick Marinello; Food styling by Lydia Fournier.
