Valentine’s is just around the corner and that means two things to me – sugary treats and chocolate (preferably together). As I was planning out the year for my blog I knew I wanted to do something centered around my love of chocolate for you all in February. Recipes are great but a giveaway is even better. I contacted my good friends at King Arthur Flour and they were more than willing to help me put on a giveaway for you guys. So today is not just lots of chocolate and treats to enjoy but a chance to win a Chocolate Lover’s Prize Pack! Keep reading…
I am in love with these chocolate cookies. The cookie has the perfect chocolate flavor and is rich and dark in color because of dutch processed cocoa. You just can’t go wrong with that cocoa! I dressed them up for the holiday with some simple sugar hearts and conversation hearts. My kids loved these cookies and they liked helping me decorate them even more. And I loved that they were pretty without having to make icing and pipe it on. I love a decorated sugar cookie but they can be such a hassle. I’m still recovering from making a million and one sugar cookies at Christmas.
So save yourself a little time and mess by making these delicious rich dark chocolate Valentine cookies. They are decorated before you even stick them in the oven!
And don’t worry if you don’t have the dutch-processed cocoa, King Arthur Flour has included that in the prize pack 🙂
Here are all the goodies that will arrive at your door if you win!
Rich Dark Chocolate Valentine’s Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose King Arthur Flour
- 2/3 cups King Arthur Flour double-dutch dark cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Valentine sprinkles and/or large conversation hearts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a baking mat.
- In a large bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer beat together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the vanilla and eggs and beat to combine well. Add the flour, cocoa, soda, and salt and stir to combine.
- Form the dough into 1 to 1 1/2 inch balls. Dip the top of the ball into the heart sprinkles and then lightly press the sprinkles into place. Place on the cookie sheet. For the conversation heart cookies, form the dough into 1 to 1 1/2 inch balls and place on the cookie sheet. With the bottom of a glass of measuring cup slightly flatten the dough ball. Place a conversation heart in the center of the dough and press lightly to get it to stick into the dough.
- Bake the cookies for 8 to 10 minutes until the centers are set. Let the cookies cool on the pan for 2 or 3 minutes and then place them on a wire rack.
- Store extra cookies in an air-tight container.
Notes
It’s a little hard to tell when these dark cookies are done, so set a timer!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: Makes 2 to 2 1/2 dozen cookies
Now, when I was first in cahoots with the fine folks at King Arthur Flour they asked me to choose a recipe from their website to create and share. I did do that but I had a few hiccups making it.
I chose to make their chocolate cream roll. It was my first time making any type of cake “roll” and there was a bit of a learning curve. I used too much powdered sugar on my tea towel, I turned the cake onto the towel too soon and it broke, and I botched the ganache by burning the cream (dang Pinterest and it’s distracting nature). I had no more cream in the house and so I tried used evaporated milk instead. Bad idea. The glaze tasted great but the consistency was all wrong. So after an afternoon of baking I ended up with one ugly but ridiculously tasty chocolate roll.
I picked this recipe because I knew that my husband would love it, and love it he did. The chocolate was deep and rich but was balanced perfectly by the cream all rolled up in the middle. This is definitely a recipe I’ll be trying again.
You can get the chocolate cream roll recipe from the King Arthur Flour website and make it yourself too. It would be the perfect decadent treat for Valentine’s Day. You might want to give it a test run before the big day though, which means you might have to make and eat that chocolate wonder twice. It would sure be a sacrifice 😉
And now for that giveaway!
Here’s what you’ll get if you win:
5 pound bag of all-purpose King Arthur Flour
Double-Dutch Dark Cocoa
Guittard Bittersweet Onyx Wafers
Guittard Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini-Chips
Set of 4 Stainless Steel Biscuit/Cookie Cutters
Small Sugar Hearts
That’s just the things you’ll need to make the chocolate cream roll, the cookies, and a whole lot more!
Just use the widget below to enter. Good luck and enjoy all that chocolate!
Chocolate Lover’s Giveaway from King Arthur Flour
The cookies looks amazing! I also absolutely love dark chocolate.
I love making pumpkin rolls, so I have to try the chocolate one! Yum!
This sounds wonderful! Must try! Fun giveaway, thanks for the chance!
I’ve never made a roll before- it looks good!
Ooooo fun! I want to win!
I love that your giveaways are things I can really use! My family and I in just the past month have been trying to eat only “real” food and your blog has given me many great recipes to use at home. Thank you!
the cookies look yummy! can’t wait to try this recipe.
Everything looks so good!
The hubs would love these!
Oh Melissa, I just learned how to do a pumpkin roll. A CHOCOLATE cake roll? I die.
I have been looking for a good chocolate chocolate cookie. Thank you! And I am a KAF snob. Love the giveaway.
Chocolate is so my love language…and my husband’s! Yum! 🙂
I am excited to try the chocolate cake roll…I haven’t done a roll since college, we will see how it turns out!
i would love to win this. yum!!!
Love chocolate! Can’t go wrong!
I have wanted to make a roll 1000 times, but haven’t gotten the courage up… will need to ask you for advice before I start. 🙂
I’m always looking for a good chocolate cookie.
Love love love your recipes and these cookies look amazing. And a great giveway, I could do some awesome baking with all of that!!
Thanks for the great giveaway! i love to bake
I LOVE KAF. They’re my shoe store… If I had my way, my kitchen would be the WHOLE first floor. 🙂
I love KAF. These look so good!
Thank you for the chance to win… I’m a chocolate lover, so this would be great!
Thank you and have a Great Weekend!
These cookies look great!
I would especially love those cookie/biscuit cutters. I always just use a glass when I make biscuits. Thank you for an easy to enter giveaway.
Yum! The cookies look delicious!
I’m such a fan of King Arthur Flour. Their products rock!
Thank you so much for offering such a wonderful giveaway. I have never tried King Arthur Flour, so I would be thrilled to win!
I want to try the chocolate disks you keep saying you eat as a snack! I am not loving rafflecopter lately! Have you noticed that the links to facebook and twitter and such don’t work anymore? And I now have to log in every single time. Very annoying.
Good to know about the refflecopter bit… I haven’t used it personally lately (just setting it but but it’s different than applying!) There’s another program a lot of other bloggers are using and maybe I’ll try that for the next one. Thanks for letting me know!!!
I love King Arthur products!!
These cookies look oh so yummy! And chewy! Thanks for the opportunity for the giveaway 🙂
I want to try that dark chocolate!
Kudos for trying the roll and unashamedly eating (and photographing) the messed up result, bet it was tasty!
Thanks for the kind words! It did still taste sooo good, even if it was ugly 🙂 Enjoy the recipe!
would love to try this flour! my friends love this kind of flour! i cant wait to try the receipes out!
thanks so much!
I love King Arthur. They make very high quality products.
love KA products
Love these cute ideas for Valentines day!!
Love your site! Thank you:)
i love king arthur ingredients , always looking for new recipes, so thanks, these look so yummy. what a great giveaway
Y-U-M.
Great recipes & giveaway. :+)