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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