Looking for chocolate heart cookies for Valentines? Here is a set of delicious, chocolate dipped heart shaped sugar cookies I made and decorated for Valentine's Day.
These decorated sugar cookies come is a set of 2 designs, and are perfect for gifting. You can gift them as individually wrapped Valentine cookies. They can also be packed together in a set of 2 cookies or 3 cookies.
These heart cookies are in vanilla flavor. I made them using my perfect homemade sugar cookies recipe. I call it perfect because its is just that – perfect in taste (rich buttery taste) and the cookies hold their shaped so well during baking, they are in the exact same shape after baking as they go into the oven.
Once baked and completely cooled down, each cookie is dipped in melted dark chocolate. I used dark couverture chocolate to coat the cookies. To do this, I simply melted my chocolate buttons (using the double boiler method) and then dipped my cookies into the melted chocolate.
Fondant Decoration
As for the cookies decoration, I used red fondant. And that is the only color on this Valentine's Day chocolate heart cookies set. For the first design, I made tiny little puffed red hearts and attached them to the cookies. The hearts were made entirely by hand without any cutters or tools (yes, you read it right). Click here for a full tutorial on how to make your own puffed fondant hearts (including miniature ones like the ones on this page) without any cutters). The hearts are attached to the cookies with tiny dots of melted chocolate.
For the second design, I made a fondant bow and laid it slanting across the chocolate dipped heart cookie. Again, I did not use any special molds for the bow, just my ruler and pizza cutting wheel (more on how to make the bow below). And off course, the single puffed fondant heart at the top left corner of the cookie was formed by hand, similar to the miniature red hearts on my first cookie design.
Overall, I had a lot of fun decorating these chocolate heart cookies set. The only tricky part was handling the chocolate. The hot and humid country I live in is absolutely unforgiving for chocolate work. Which is my I chose couverture chocolate (as it is more stable with heat compared to normal chocolate), but I still had to work in an air-conditioned room.
How to Make and Decorate the Chocolate Heart Cookies
Main supplies:
- Cookies – I used my homemade sugar cookies recipe to bake the heart shaped cookies.
- Chocolate – This is to coat the cookies. You can use any chocolate you want, and I used dark chocolate.
- Fondant – I only used one color which is Satin Ice fondant in red.
- Pizza cutting wheel– Use this to cut the fondant when making the bow on the cookies.
- Fondant shaping tools
- Toothpicks – these were used to help in making the miniature puffed fondant hearts on the cookies as well as to apply chocolate to the hearts to stick them to the cookies.
- FMM Sugarcraft Pattern Press for polka dots– This tool is to help mark the dots on the chocolate covered cookies for the placement of the miniature puffed hearts.
- Wire racks– These are to place the cookies after dipping them in chocolate.
- Parchment squares
- Sugarcraft knife
- Fondant glue
This was how I assembled the chocolate heart cookies:
- I started by baking my cookies and cooling them down completely to room temperature. Heat is totally unforgiving for chocolate so its really important that the cookies have totally cooled down to room temperature. I normally bake mine at least one day before decorating.
Coating the cookies in chocolate
- Next is to coat the cookies with chocolate. There are 2 ways to doing this. First method is to dip the cookies completely into melted chocolate.
- For this, melt the chocolate over a double boiler (see my post here on how to melt chocolate). Place water in a small pot.
- Place the chocolate in a heat proof bowl and place it on the pot, making sure the water is not touching the chocolate bowl. Turn on the heat and let the chocolate melt. Turn off the heat and let the bowl remain on the pot. This will help ensure the chocolate does not set as you are dipping the cookies in.
- And then dip the cookies, one by one into the chocolate. Lift them with a fork and place them on a wire rack to let excess chocolate drip off.
- After that, transfer them to a parchment paper to let the chocolate set completely.
- Once transferred onto the parchment squares, place them in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes to let the chocolate set.
- Remove them from the refrigerator and trim off the excess chocolate that has settled at the edges of the cookies. To do this, while holding the cookie on one hand, carefully remove the parchment paper underneath in sections and trim off the excess chocolate.
- The other option for covering the cookies with chocolate is to arrange them on a wire rack and pour the melted chocolate over.
- With this option, only the top and sides of the cookies will be coated with chocolate. The bottom will remain uncoated.
- I chose the first option because I wanted the cookies to be completely covered in chocolate.
Decorating the chocolate heart cookies
- Since this cookie set comes in 2 different designs, it is easier to complete the first design and then move on to the second design.
- The first design is the cookies decorated with miniature red puffed fondant hearts without the bow (I have a separate tutorial on how to make the puffed hearts and you can read it here). To make sure the hearts are at consistent intervals on the cookies, you can use FMM Sugarcraft pattern press tool to mark the position of the hearts. The tool looks like a fondant smoother but instead of a smooth surface, it has tiny spikes on it that actually help to mark the dots.
- To mark the dots, roughly eyeball the position of the spikes on the cookies and then gently place it on the cookie to mark the dots. No need to exert any pressure as the chocolate is soft and can be marked easily.
- Lift the tool up and you will see the dots all ready to take on the puffed hearts. If you don’t have the tool, you can always eyeball the position. Do it row by row so that you can have the marks in an orderly pattern.
- Next attach the fondant hearts on the cookies. To do that, if the chocolate on the cookie as totally set, use a toothpick to apply a tiny amount of chocolate at the back of each heart and attach them to the cookie.
Making the fondant bow for the second design
- The next design has a fondant bow on. To make the bow, roll some red fondant and cut out a few thin strips in the same width. Place one piece in a slanting position on the cookie. Trim off the excess at the sides. If the chocolate on the cookie has totally set, lightly brush some melted chocolate at the back of the fondant strip before attaching it to the cookie.
- Next, cut out 2 equal sized strips of fondant for the bow loops. Loop them and cut off excess fondant.
- Next, cut out 2 more strips. Place one halfway overlapping on the other.
- Place the loops formed earlier on the strips as shown.
- And wrap the loops. Start with the top. And then wrap the bottom.
- Turn the loops over and use a fondant tool to smooth and adjust the bow.
Attaching the fondant bow to the cookies
- Before adding the bow onto the cookie, cut out another 2 strips of fondant. For each strip, cut out a tiny triangle piece at the end.
- Attach them to the slanting fondant strip on the cookie. To hold them in place, use fondant glue.
- And then attach the loops (also with the help of some fondant glue) and adjust the bow so that it is in the exact position you want it to be on the cookie.
- And finally, add a red puffed fondant heart on the top left corner of the cookie. The heart can formed by hand without any tools or cutters just like the miniature red hearts in the first design above (get the tutorial here) and attached to the cookie with some melted chocolate.
Like this chocolate heart cookies tutorial? Here are my other posts you might want to check out:
- How to Make Puffed Fondant Hearts without Cutters and Molds
- Mini Valentine's Day Heart Shaped Cakes
- Chocolate Covered Orange - Quick and Easy Treats Idea
Recipe (Printable)
Here is the full printable version of my chocolate heart cookies recipe.
Chocolate Heart Cookies for Valentine's Day
These chocolate heart cookies are covered in delicious dark chocolate and decorated with little red hearts, perfect for Valentine's Day!
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Yield: 20 cookies
Equipment
- Pizza cutting wheel
- Fondant shaping tools
- Toothpicks
- FMM Sugarcraft Pattern Press for polka dots
- Wire racks
- Parchment squares
- Sugarcraft knife
Ingredients
- 20 Heart shaped sugar cookies
- Dark chocolate
- Red fondant
Instructions
- Bake the cookies and let them cool down completely to room temperature.
Coating the cookies in chocolate
- Melt the chocolate over double boiler and dip the cookies, one by one into the chocolate.
- Transfer the chocolate dipped cookies onto parchment paper squares. Place the cookies in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes to allow the chocolate to set.
- Once removed from the refrigerator, trim off the excess chocolate that has settled at the edges of the cookies. To do this, use the sugar craft knife and while holding the cookie on one hand, carefully remove the parchment paper underneath in sections and carefully trim off the excess chocolate.
Decorating the chocolate heart cookies
- Since this cookie set comes in 2 different designs, start by completing one design first and then do the other.
- For the first design which is the cookies covered in miniature puffed fondant hearts, use the FMM Sugarcraft pattern press tool to mark the position of the hearts. The tool looks like a fondant smoother but instead of a smooth surface, it has tiny spikes on it that actually help to mark the dots.
- To mark the dots, roughly eyeball the position of the spikes on the cookies and then gently place the tool on the cookie to mark the dots. No need to exert any pressure as the chocolate is soft and can be marked easily. Lift the tool up and you will see the dots all ready to take on the puffed hearts. If you don’t have the tool, you can always eyeball the position and mark them with a toothpick. Do it row by row so that you can have the marks in an orderly pattern.
Shaping and attaching the little red fondant hearts
- Start by pinching tiny pieces of red fondant for the hearts.
- Shape the fondant pieces into smooth balls and then roll the balls into tiny sausages.
- Using a toothpick, gently press the center of the sausages to form a dent. In forming the dent, make sure you do not press it too hard that it becomes flat in the center. Suffice if you make a tiny dent.
- Fold the fondant sausage such that both ends of the sausage meet and stick together.
- Gently pinch the pointed end to make it nice and pointy and adjust the round tops of the heart until you achieve a cute puffed heart.
- Attach the fondant hearts to the cookies (on the markings made to the cookie earlier) with tiny dots of melted chocolate.
Making the fondant bow
- For the second cookie design, start by making the fondant bow. Roll some red fondant and cut out a few thin strips in the same width. Place one strip on the cookie is a slanting position. And then trim off the excess at the sides. If the chocolate on the cookie has totally set, lightly brush some melted chocolate at the back of the fondant strip before attaching it to the cookie.
- Next, cut out 2 equal sized strips of fondant for the bow loops. Loop them and cut off excess fondant. Use fondant glue to hold the loops in place.
- Next, cut out 2 more strips. Place one halfway on the other strip and wrap it around the earlier made loops.
- Turn the bow over and use the fondant tool to smooth and adjust the bow.
Attaching the fondant bow to the cookies
- Before adding the bow onto the cookies, cut out 2 more strips of fondant. For each strip, cut out a tiny triangle piece at the end and attach them to the fondant strip on the cookie. To hold them in place, use fondant glue.
- And then attach the loops (also with the help of some fondant glue) and adjust the bow so that it is in the correct position on the cookie.
- And finally, add a puffed fondant heart on the top left corner of the cookie. Form the heart by hand without any tools or cutters just like the miniature red hearts in the first design above and attach it to the cookie with some melted chocolate.
Nutrition
Calories: 50.2kcal | Carbohydrates: 6.5g | Protein: 0.6g | Fat: 2.4g | Saturated Fat: 0.6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1.3g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 52.4mg | Potassium: 10mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 1.5g | Vitamin A: 8.6IU | Calcium: 3.5mg | Iron: 0.3mg
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And that's my easy Valentine's Day chocolate heart cookies recipe and tutorial!
Happy decorating 🙂
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