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DEVIL’S FOOD HEART
DEVIL’S FOOD HEARTS S
eems like a dangerous loween. Or if you don’t want to
thought—that the devil wait for a holiday, just sprinkle on
might have something to do some granulated sugar before they
with your heart. But rest assured, go into the oven.
the only danger
1
MAKES: 5 DOZEN 2 ⁄ 2-INCH COOKIES
with this
PREPARATION TIME: 20 MINUTES
cookie is
BAKING TIME: 8 TO 12 MINUTES
that you might
want to eat too 1 package (18.25 ounces) plain devil’s food
many! Use a plain devil’s food cake mix
1
12 tablespoons (1 ⁄2 sticks) unsalted butter,
cake mix, one without pudding
at room temperature
inside. Add only butter, an egg, 1 large egg
1
and a little vanilla and you have a 1 ⁄2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Flour for rolling out the cookies
wonderful chocolate dough that
1 ⁄4 cup sugar (optional)
can be rolled thin and cut into
shapes. I chose hearts and deco- 1. Place the cake mix, butter, egg, and
vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Blend
rated them with different shades
with an electric mixer on low speed for 1
of pink icing for Valentine’s Day, min ute. The dough will be thick and will
come together into a ball. Cover the bowl
but you could just as easily cut
with plastic wrap and place it in the
them into pumpkins and pipe on
refrigerator to chill for at least 3 hours,
some orange frosting for Hal- or preferably overnight.
