Valentine's Day Oreo Cookies

Valentine's Day Oreo Cookies

Delicious, fun Valentine's Day cookies! :)

Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl and whisk together.

Whisk together the butter, brown sugar, and egg in mixer until smooth.

Combine the whisked egg mixture with the flour mixture, until a dough forms.

Split into two sections and roll out each into an 1/'8" thick piece of dough.  Repeat with remaining half of dough.  Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

Once ready, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cut out into an even number of heart-shapes, large and small.

Bake for about 8-10 minutes (depending on the size of the cookies), until fragrant and a bit bubbly-looking.

Once cool, split into two sections (evenly).

Turn one half over to expose the bottoms of the cookies.

Pipe a bit of icing onto the cookie, in a v-shape.

Press another cookie on top, right-side up.  Done!

Do the same with larger cookies.

Beautiful; done! :)

Valentine's Day Oreo Cookies

Cooking time: 10 mintues
Prep time: 2 hours
Total time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Servings: 36 (one small cookie sandwich)

Nutrition info per serving (one cookie sandwich):
Calories: 73 calories
Fat: 4 g
Sodium: 44 mg
Carbs: 10 g
Fiber: 1 g
Protein: 1 g

Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
5 tablespoons butter, melted
2/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 large egg
**leftover icing from my St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes is my filling**

Directions:
1.  Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl and whisk together.
2.  Add the butter, brown sugar, and egg to the mixer and whisk until smooth.
3.  Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until a dough forms.
4.  Split dough in half and roll each piece to 1/8" thick in between 2 sheets of parchment paper.  Refrigerate each for at least 30 mintues.
5.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cut out small and medium-sized hearts from the dough sheets.  Bake for about 8-10 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies, until fragrant and bubbly-looking.
6.  Let cool completely, then split cookies in half.  Flip one half of the cookies upside-down, and pipe icing onto them in a v-shape.  Press the top half of the cookies on top of the first, right-side up.

Refrigerate to firm up.

**Adapted from Martha Stewart's Chocolate Heart Sandwich Cookies recipe:  http://www.marthastewart.com/962105/chocolate-heart-sandwich-cookies?czone=food%2Fcookies-cnt%2Fspecial-occasion-cookies&gallery=275367&slide=962105&center=276956  **

So much fun for Valentine's Day!  Enjoy! :)