With Valentine’s Day falling on a Sunday this year, yesterday, Friday, would seem to be the day to bring in a love-inspired baked good for my coworkers. Oh, and I always let Shaun try whatever I make.
I am a sucker for cookie cutters, but I have gotten increasingly lazy about rolling out dough. Since I have adorable, graduated heart cookie cutters that I haven’t used in years, I resolved to make roll-out cookies this year. I had a small, time-saving idea: I used my pasta machine. There are just a couple caveats to this method. First, even on the largest width setting, the dough is still pretty thin for a cookie, so you have to be going for that. Second, the result is a long, thin dough, so you can’t have that large of a cutter. I made tiny hearts. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with them, but in the end I filled them with buttercream for tiny Oreos.
I’ve made homemade Oreos before, from (of couse) Smitten Kitchen. I actually used her brownie roll-out cookies recipe this time, and although mine were much thinner, they stayed soft and tasty.
We ate them all up, then headed home because (OMG) snow!
Oh my goodness those cookies are adorable. You and C from inthelifeof always inspire me to cook more things at home, but then I get really lazy…