Purple Velvet Sugar Cookies Recipe

Simple, lovely chewy little vivid pink sugar cookies with a coronary heart within the heart! These Purple Velvet Sugar Cookies make the softest, chewiest sugar cookies and the hearts within the heart are simply store-bought sweet! This recipe makes a small batch of cookies as a result of Valentine’s Day desserts ought to serve two.

Why Purple Velvet?

I found one thing actually essential about pink velvet, and I am prepared to inform the world. In case you’ve by no means had pink velvet, it is a tender cake with a contact of cocoa powder. It likes to be paired white chocolate, and it loves cream cheese, however what you did not know is how a lot a white chocolate peanut butter coronary heart brings to the social gathering.

In case you keep in mind (and laughed at) my Valentine’s Day sweet overview, you will acknowledge these Reese’s white chocolate peanut butter hearts. It was laborious to save lots of 6 for this pink velvet sugar cookies recipe, however I did it. If I can do it, you are able to do it! This small-batch sugar cookie recipe simply makes 6 cookies, so all you must save is 6 hearts. That is cheap, proper?

To be sincere, although, any heart-shaped chocolate is welcome right here. The caramel hearts from my small-batch brownies could be nice, and even the Dove darkish chocolate hearts, although they’re a bit smaller.

Let’s Get Baking

Creating these Purple Velvet Sugar Cookies for 2 is very easy and would not take a lot time.  Here is what you want:

• Unsalted Butter
• Sugar
• Egg Yolk
• Vanilla Extract
• Purple Gel Meals Coloring
• All-Goal Flour
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• Baking Soda
• Salt
• White Chocolate Peanut Butter Hearts

Mix the melted butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla extract, and pink gel meals coloring.  Then add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt and stir to mix.  Flatten the dough and divide into six elements.  Roll every half right into a ball and canopy in sugar.  Bake and permit to chill.  Add the center into the center and luxuriate in! 

Purple Velvet Sugar Cookies for Valentine’s Day:

I’ve received a smooth spot for pink velvet. I’ve gone years with out it, as a result of, as , as a society, we’re very into beet and spirulina powder lately, and we’re definitely avoiding pink meals coloring. However, um, it is Valentine’s Day and I simply can’t resist a festive dessert for 2. It is simply how I roll.

This sugar cookie recipe is predicated on one from my subsequent cookbook, Candy & Easy: Dessert for Two, and I like it for therefore many causes. The recipe makes use of melted butter, which is all the time loaded simpler for an individual like me who’s a) impatient and b) by no means remembers to place butter on the counter to melt. These cookies bake up smooth, crackly and ideal, it doesn’t matter what measurement you scoop them. I’ve rolled them into 10 dough balls, and I’ve beefed it as much as 6 balls (like I did right here)–no matter what I do, they all the time bake up good. In addition they bake up completely spherical, even should you do a half-ass job shaping them into balls.

They’re primarily the right sugar cookie recipe that you simply want in your arsenal.

In case you’re in search of the right simple sugar cookie recipe with out pink meals coloring, I’ve received you coated. 

These cookies solely use an egg yolk, so you’ll want to take a look at my recipes to make use of leftover egg whites.