cutting hearts from chocolate sugar cookie dough
Pull out your love heart cookies cutters it's almost Valentines Day! A time when you just can't have too many love hearts. The quick & easy countdown continues with love heart cutters and moulds.
Perhaps you want to bake & decorate sugar cookies, or maybe your loved one loves pizza so heart shaped pizzas are in order. I'll be making mini decorated heart sugar cookies to use as cupcake toppers. If you don't have cutters yet, you might want to invest in a set of stainless steel love heart cutters, or if you only bake occasionally you could purchase a plastic set from a discount store. For tiny, mini hearts use ejector cutters or standard aspic cutter sets include a small heart cutter.
assorted heart cookie and heart ejector cutters
aspic cutter set contains one small heart cutter
Even toast can be turned into an emergency Valentines treat, top with an egg, jam, Nuttella or even Vegemite. A heart cutter can double as a food ring, so you can shape that saffron rice if you like. Don't forget you can make a large cake such as a Dobos Torte, cut heart shapes from the filled cake and decorate each heart as desired.
sugared heart shaped whole-grain french toast & raspberry jam
Love heart moulds range from large metal cake tins to silicone mini's. The advantage of silicone is that you can use it to bake cupcakes and petit fours & with silicone being freezer safe use it a for ice-cream moulds too.
silicone heart mini mould can be used for petit fours to ice cubes
silicone heart cupcake moulds for baked & frozen desserts
Tips: if your decorating cookies with royal icing they take 24-48 to set, allow 24 hours for ready to roll fondant.
Quick chocolate heart cut outs are made by spreading melted tempered (or compound) chocolate out thinly on a baking sheet. Before the chocolate sets hard, cut heart shapes out with a metal cutter. Store in single layers between baking paper. Store set piped chocolate hearts the same way.