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🍽️ Hearts Full of Chocolate Love

353 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 200 g soft butter
• 100 g powdered sugar
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• 1 tbsp orange juice
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 175 g flour
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 75 g ground almond kernels
• 75 g finely grated dark chocolate
• flour (for working)
• 125 g dark couverture chocolate

Instructions

1. 1. Beat the butter and powdered sugar until creamy.
2. 2. Stir in the egg yolk, vanilla sugar, orange juice, and cinnamon.
3. 3. Mix the flour, almonds, cocoa, and chocolate in a separate bowl.
4. 4. Quickly knead these ingredients with the egg yolk-butter mixture into a smooth dough.
5. 5. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap.
6. 6. Place the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
7. 7. Dust your work surface with some flour.
8. 8. Roll out the dough to a thickness of about 3 millimeters.
9. 9. Cut out heart shapes from the dough.
10. 10. Place the hearts on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
11. 11. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
12. 12. Bake the hearts in the preheated oven on the middle rack for about 10 minutes.
13. 13. Remove the baking sheet from the oven.
14. 14. Carefully lift the hearts off the tray using the baking paper.
15. 15. Let the hearts cool completely.
16. 16. Chop the chocolate coating into small pieces.
17. 17. Melt the chocolate pieces in a double boiler.
18. 18. Dip the cooled hearts halfway into the melted chocolate.
19. 19. Let the excess chocolate drip off briefly.
20. 20. Place the hearts on a piece of aluminum foil to dry.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 353
• Protein: 6 g · Fett/Fat: 23 g · Carbs: 45 g