Recipe and source notes

Chocolate Orange Heart Cookies

4 dozen cookies Source yield

Ingredients

  • 2½ cups flour
  • ¾ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¾ cup butter, softened
  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla

Make it step by step

  1. Heat oven to 375°F.
  2. Mix first 4 ingredients in bowl.
  3. Beat butter, sugars in a separate bowl until creamy.
  4. Beat in eggs.
  5. Add vanilla.
  6. Beat in flour mixture.
  7. On floured surface, roll out half of dough to ⅛ inch thickness.
  8. Cut with 1¾ inch heart shaped cookie cutter.
  9. Transfer to ungreased baking sheet.
  10. Bake 10 minutes.
  11. Cool cookies.
  12. Roll, cut and bake remaining dough.
  13. Beat all filling ingredients in bowl until smooth but thick.
  14. Spread 1 tsp on half of the cookies.
  15. Sandwich with second cookie.
  16. Let set 30 minutes.
  17. Dust with confectioners sugar.

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