Easy Valentine's Day Cookies Recipe
Easy recipe for homemade vegan cookies with Pink Pitaya glaze. Perfect idea for a Valentine's Day sweet treat💖
Difficulty level: Easy
Time required: 1 hour +
Ingredients:
Cookies:
- 220gm flour
- 60gm powdered sugar
- 150gm vegan butter
- 4 tbsp walnuts, very finely chopped
- Pinch of salt
Aquafaba icing:
- 6 tbsp chickpea water (aquafaba)
- 240gm powdered sugar, sifted
- 1/2 - 1 tsp of Rawnice Pink Pitaya Powder, or Beetroot Powder
Directions:
Cookies:
- Sift the flour and sugar into a bowl.
- Add pinch of salt and butter chopped into smaller pieces.
- Mix all with electric mixer until incorporated.
- Add walnuts and start knead the dough with hand, combining the ingredients into a ball.
- Wrap the dough in foil and put in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 160°C
- Divide the dough into 2 pieces, roll out each into cakes around 3 mm thick.
- Use the mold to cut out shapes and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Bake around 15 min. Cool completely before decorating with sugar icing.
Pink Icing
- Whisk the chickpea water with an electric mixer until foamy.
- Add the sifted powdered sugar gradually, mixing constantly on a high speed.
- Add gradually Pink Pitaya Powder and mix. If you want to make two shades of pink color, divide mixture into two part and add more powder to the one part.
- If your icing is too thick, add more chickpea water (or you can add also lemon juice instead). If the mixture is too rare, add more sugar.
- Decorate cookies with icing and enjoy💕