Gourmet Cookie Bouquets Recipe Blog

Archive for January, 2010

Here’s another great recipe to whip up this Valentine’s Day!  Heart cut-outs show the raspberry filling for a fun and sweet Valentine Treat!

I like raspberry best for my filling, but you can try other preserves like strawberry, cherry, etc.

INGREDIENTS:
* 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 3/4 cup sugar
* 1 tsp baking powder
* 1 tsp vanilla extract
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 3/4 cup butter softened
* 1 cup seedless raspberry preserves
* 1/3 cup powdered sugar

*3 or 4 inch heart-shaped cookie cutter & 1 1/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter

DIRECTIONS:
1.  In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, vanilla extract, and salt. Next with a pastry blender or two knives used scissor-fashion, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle 4 to 5 tablespoons cold water ( 1 tablespoon at time) into the flour mixture, mixing lightly with a fork after each addition until dough is just moist enough to hold together. Shape dough into a ball then wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour or until firm enough to roll.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. On a lightly floured surface with a floured rolling pin, roll one-third of the dough at a time 1/8 inch thick, keeping the remaining dough refrigerated. With a floured 3 or 4 inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut dough into as many hearts as possible. Place the hearts 1/2 inches apart  on an ungreased large cookie sheet. Keep the trimmings. With a floured 1 1/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out centers from half of hearts. Remove cutout centers, and bake along with larger cookies, checking after 7 minutes for doneness.

3. Bake cookies 10 to 12 minutes until lightly browned. Move cookies to wire racks to cool. Combine remaining dough and trimmings together to make more cookies.

4. When cookies are cool, sprinkle cookies with cutout centers with powdered sugar. Spread each cookie without cutout center with 1 rounded teaspoon raspberry preserves; top each with a center cut-out cookie, gently pressing cookies together to form a sandwich. Store in tightly covered container.

Here’s a great dessert that is both pretty to look at and delicious to eat!   Layering just a few ingredients in a trifle bowl makes for an impressive presentation.  Perfect for a Valentine brunch or romantic dinner for 2!

You do need to plan for this dessert ahead of time, as it needs to chill for 8 hours or overnight.

Valentine’s Day is approaching fast!  We’ve just unveiled 2 new fun and delicious Valentine cookie bouquets for your sweetheart!

Our gourmet cookie bouquets are created from delicious butter creme cookies, baked fresh daily and professionally hand-decorated. Cookies are approximately 4-5″ tall, depending on shape.  Each bouquet is artfully arranged and carefully packaged for shipment to insure it arrives safely.

Our first new design really packs a punch!  Let your Valentine know you think they’re a real knockout!  We’ve decorated cookies shaped like boxing gloves, boxer shorts and heart for a unique and unforgettable gift!  Perfect for the hard-to-buy-for man in your life!

The next new bouquet is our “Sending My Love” cookie bouquet.  Sweetly decorated mailboxes, lips, hearts and an evelope sealed with a kiss make up this fun bouquet.  Whether your Valentine is near or far, go straight to their heart (or stomach!) with a delcious cookie bouquet!

Prices start at $28 and we ship them straight to their door!

I see romance in your future!  For a unique gift this Valentine’s Day, consider a gourmet chocolate or caramel dipped fortune cookie!

If it’s variety you’re looking for, choose our tin of 18 or 24 fortune cookies dipped in caramel, milk chocolate, dark chocolate or white chocolate (or an assortment).  We sprinkle each one with pink, red and white candy heart sprinkles for a festive look. Choose our Love and Romance messages, standard fortune cookie messages, or a number of other fortune themes.

If you’d like to add a personal touch to your Valentine’s Day gift, choose our giant fortune cookie. You can specify what you would like the fortune to say, and we will neatly tuck it away inside of the cookie!  Imagine their surprise when they crack open their fortune cookie to find a heartfelt message from you!  Our giant gourmet fortune cookies weigh nearly a pound and measure 7″ wide x 4″ tall x 6″ deep (about the size of two hands).