Baking with Dorie: Chocolate-Dipped Linzer Hearts

Getting into the full swing of Valentine's Day, this week's Baking with Dorie recipe at Serious Eats is for Chocolate-Dipped Linzer Hearts.

The dough for the nut-and-spice cookie, which isn't very sweet, is great to work with.  It rolls out easily, cuts cleanly and can be re-rolled without toughening if you follow my instructions for "pre-rolling" the dough right after it's made and then re-rolling the gathered scraps between plastic wrap or wax paper.  (The pre-rolling is a neat trick that you'll be able to use with other recipes.)

The cookies are also exceptionally play-aroundable.  In Baking From My Home to Yours, you'll see them as scallop-edged round sandwiches: half the cookies are cut with peek-a-boo holes and two cookies are sandwiched together with Valentine-red rasberry jam.  Of course, you could sandwich these heart-shaped cookies.  And, you could dip the sandwiches in chocolate.  After all, they're for Valentine's Day, a good day for making special things extra special.

Comments

[Oliverde]

Wonder how they'd taste with bacon....;-)

[Dorie]

I hope you and your sweeties enjoy these cookies. Because I made these last week for the Baking with Dorie column, they're all gone and I've got to make something else for V-Day. I'm thinking of baking my 15-Minute Magic (the chocolate-amaretti torte) and cutting it into a heart shape, filling it with red jam -- maybe cherry -- and covering it with a dark chocolate glaze. Shhhh. Please don't tell them.

[Jane M]

Going down to my kitchen now to bake some heart cookies up right now! Can't decide if I'll dip them on chocolate or make linzer torts? HMMMM I'll have to decide. Anything hearts is right up my ally. I HEART HEARTS!!!!!!!!!!

[Paula]

Beautiful. I love linzer cookies. Perfect for Valentine's Day!

[Andrea]

Perfect timing! I just saw a similar peek-a-boo/red jam linzer heart in Le Pain Quotidien.

I'm going to try making mini heart versions of this, dipped in chocolate, of course. Thanks for the inspiration.

[Jeannette Mara]

I'd just like to say, Dorie, that I have made your Carrot Spiced Muffins from your book several times now, yesterday was the last, and they are my favourite muffins of all time! I have never been a big muffin fan in the past but these are really worth making, the flavour is so good. The other recipe that has been a big success is the World Peace cookies, my daughter begged me for the recipe which she now makes regularly for her family. Some American recipes don't always work out so well , what with the differences in flours between the continents , but I seem to have success with yours which gives me confidence to try more.

[JEP]

Dorie, I always especially like your suggested "play-aroundables" in your recipes...I'm in awe over your creativity!

[Dorie]

Maria, I hope you make these and enjoy them -- let me know.

Tulip, you could certainly use the dough as the base of a tart -- it will be very delicate, since it's really a shortbread dough, but very delicious.

[tulip]

Oh me! I should have read the link first!! :) Question answered!

[tulip]

Lovely! Do you think you could use the cookie recipe as a base for a tart? I have a hazelnut tart that would be yummy on top of those I think!

[Maria]

I love the look of these cookies...and I am sure I will love the taste too! A perfect recipe for February! Thanks Dorie!