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Oven Temp. ~ 350
Baking Time ~ 7 to 9 minutes
Pan size ~ Cookie sheet & 1 quart saucepan
Servings ~ 18 to 20 |
GLENDA'S Helpful
Kitchen Hints
If you would like to make a great sugar cookie yourself, you can click on;
Becca's Sugar Cookie Recipe.
Be sure not to over cook the
cookies. Have fun.
Variation;
substitute dark chocolate with;
white chocolate chips,
peanut butter chips
or milk chocolate chips.
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Say "I love you" on any special day with a
easy & healthy dark chocolate dipped cookie.
Easy Dark Chocolate ~ Dipped Heart Cookies
1 roll ~ refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1/4 to 1/2 cup all ~ purpose flour
2 cups semisweet dark chocolate chips
1 tablespoon shortening
Colored pink or red sugar
Heat
oven as directed. Remove half of cookie dough from wrapper; refrigerate
remaining refrigerator cookie dough until needed. Sprinkle about 3 tablespoons of the
flour onto the work surface; coat sides of half of dough with flour.
With a rolling pin, roll out dough to 1/4
~ inch thickness, adding
additional flour as needed to prevent the rolling pin of sticking.
With a floured 3 ~ inch heart ~ shaped cookie cutter, cut out hearts.
Gently remove the heart from the cutter and brush off the excess flour from hearts; place
cookies 2 inches apart on a ungreased cookie sheets. Repeat with remaining half of
the cookie dough.
Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until the cookies are light golden brown.
Don't over cook. Cool 1 minute;
gently remove cookies on to a cooling rack. Cool completely, about
15 minutes.
In a 1 ~ quart saucepan, heat dark chocolate chips and shortening over low
heat, stirring occasionally, until dark chocolate chips are melted and smooth. Remove from
heat. Dip half of each heart cookie into the melted dark chocolate, allowing excess
dark chocolate to drip off; place on a waxed paper or parchment
paper ~ lined cookie sheets.
Sprinkle with pink or red colored sugar. |