RECIPES: Valentine's Day Macaroons

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

If you're not sure how to please your other half for Valentine's Day, try making cute macaroons. Pink delicacies with recognition can be both a pleasant surprise and an independent gift.

If you celebrate Valentine's Day, you need to prepare something special for dessert, for example, bright cookies with a declaration of love. It is not so difficult to prepare it, but you can make the seal yourself and write any pleasant words and wishes on it.

This is another option for a gift and a pleasant surprise for Valentine's Day. A delicious and beautiful dessert can be packed as a gift or simply presented to your passion on a plate. In any case, it will be pleasant and tasty.

To make a cookie like this, you need not only food, but also a seal for the cookie. You don't have to think too much and, as in the picture below, but if you want to make an individual gift with special meaning, you can make it yourself.

How to print

Surely, as a child, you sculpted crafts from salt dough, and this safe material can be used to print for holiday cookies.

You will need:

• 2 cups of flour;
• a glass of salt;
• ¾ a glass of water;
• 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil;

Everything is thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous structure, after which a seal can be molded. Make a conical shape, as in the picture below, and on a flat surface, using a toothpick, pencil or any other convenient tool, make an inscription. Just keep in mind that the inscription on the cookies will be in a mirror image, so as not to get indistinct scribbles.

You can make several seals: with a name, different wishes, hearts. Ready stamps should be left somewhere for a day in a warm, dry place, and then baked in the oven. Half an hour at 50ºC and then about 10 minutes at 100ºC. The main thing is that the oven heats up gradually, otherwise the seals may crack.

Mixing the ingredients

For the cookies you will need (for 15 pieces):

• 1 pack of butter;
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ⅔ glasses of sugar;
• 1 teaspoon of almond extract
• pink food;
• 1, 5-2 cups flour;

Mix oil, salt, sugar and flour until smooth, add almond extract and pink dye there. If you cannot find almond extract, you can grind the almonds in a coffee grinder and add the resulting flour instead of the extract.

When the dough is ready, you roll it into balls and flatten it with the seal.

To prevent the seal from sticking, immerse it in flour before use.

If the edges of the cookies are uneven, you can cut off the excess dough with a shot glass.

Place cookies on a baking sheet and place in oven preheated to 170ºC. Bake for about 15 minutes, then remove from oven, cool slightly and refrigerate.