Baking with Dorie: Chocolate-Amaretti Heartbreakers

I've posted a pre-pre-Valentine's-Day recipe this week on Baking with Dorie at Serious Eats.  It's for heart-shaped waffles made with lots of chocolate and crushed amaretti, those wonderful little almond-meringue cookies that come in the beautiful red tins and boxes (pictured). I make these waffles in a five-of-hearts waffler, but you can use any kind of waffle iron and then, if you'd like, cut the waffles into hearts for your sweetie. 

The idea to make chocolate-amaretti waffles (which can be dried and turned into cookies; see the recipe) came from wanting to pump-up a waffle with the flavors I love in my Fifteen-Minute Magic Cake, a chocolate amaretti torte (page 276 in Baking From My Home to Yours, for those of you who have it).  It's a truly great flavor combo and I think it's a kick that it translates to waffles.

You can serve the waffles whole, giving everyone (or just your Valentine) five connected hearts topped with ice cream, hot fudge and whipped cream (why not? it's a holiday), or you can separate the hearts and use them to make ice-cream sandwiches.  If you want to go all out with the sandwiches, have a bowl of hot fudge sauce on the table so you can dip and double dip.

Comments

[Emiline]

This WOULD be perfect for your sweetie on Valentine's Day.

[Alejandra]

Amaretti fill my heart with joy! I am planning a post on almond tonight in anticipation of Valentine's and was so excited when I saw these here. Seroiusly, nothing makes me happier than cooking with these little guys. Will definitely be giving this a shot!

[maria]

This is my kind of dessert...hopefully Josh will like it to! I now know what I am making for my sweetheart:) Thanks Dorie!

[heather mahoney]

I will make this on Saturday, amaretti is my favorite. I wanted you to know that I am in love with the Bostock reci[pe in your Baking book. Here's my posting:
http://talkmorelater.blogspot.com/2008/02/bostock-or-best-almond-breakfast-bread.html
Thanks you so much!!!

[JEP]

I want a whole one served warm with a scoop of vanilla Haagen-Dazs & drizzled with hot fudge sauce, please! Who needs a Valentine:)

[brilynn]

I've made the Fifteen Minute Magic cake so I KNOW those waffles would be amazing. Unfortunately, I had to leave the waffle maker at home when I moved as I realized I had given it to Dad for Christmas and couldn't very well steal it away...

[Casey]

dorie: these are DECADENT.
fabulous so, of course