A Box of Hearts - From Me To You ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Hey, hey, hey,

Who's ready for Valentine's Day?

Too soon? Hell yeah I know 😂😂😂😂

But 2 weeks will pass by so quickly, before you know it, it's gonna be here. Soooo, how about if I share you these chocolate-peppermint heart-shaped cookies for much early Valentine's celebration 😁

Vegan of course 😉

You will have enough time to try the recipe, then to gift to your loved ones when the time come 😉 Sounds good?

You can use almond flavoring, vanilla flavoring, orange flavoring, whatever flavoring that would match nicely with chocolate, should you not into creme de menthe flavor btw!

Ingredients

• 2 c flour
• 10 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp BP
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• 50 ml coconut milk beverage (not coconut milk for cooking)
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp active dry yeast
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• 1 tbsp golden flax meal
• 2 1/2 tbsp water
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• 100 g vegan margarine
• A couple drops of creme de menthe/peppermint/mint oil
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• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• Gel food coloring (no flavor), Wilton, vegan friendly
• A couple drops of creme de menthe oil

How To

• Heat milk to luke warm, sprinkle with sugar and yeast, let bloom for 5 mins
• Meanwhile, mix flax meal with water, let stand until thickened
• Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, make a well in center

• Pour in flax and milk, mix with wooden spoon
• Knead in margarine until combined, then knead in oil flavoring

• Divide dough into 2 portions, knead in cocoa powder to one, red food coloring to the other. To the red one, drop more oil flavoring.

• Wrap dough with cling wrap, chill for 30 minutes
• Take out dough and roll each
• Using heart shaped cookie cutter, cut hearts on red dough
• Cut strips chocolate dough as shown on picture

• Stack 3 hearts together, then wrap the outside with chocolate dough, as shown here

• Trim excess dough and place hearts on tray

• Freeze hearts for 30-45 minutes
• Preheat oven to 400 F
• Take out hearts and slice into cookies, bake for 12 minutes
• Let cookies stand on pans for at least 10 mins before moving to cooling rack

Ta-daaaaa

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Thanks For Looking!

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Looky, looky, what @enginewitty made me, isn't it a cutie 😊