Red Velvet Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar, plus extra for rolling
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon red gel food coloring
• 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon fine salt
• 6 white chocolate peanut butter hearts (like Reese's) 

Instructions

• heat the kitchen appliance to 350, and line atiny low baking sheet with parchment paper (or use a siloxane mat).

• Stir along the liquified butter, sugar, egg yolk, flavoring and red foodstuff. Stir fine to mix.

• Next, sprinkle the flour, chocolate, bicarbonate of soda and salt equally over the dough, and stir simply to mix.

• Press the dough flat and equally within the bowl, and so divide it in half by eye. you must get three cookies from every half.

• Roll every dough ball in your hands, roll gently further refined sugar, and so house equally on the ready baking sheet.

• Bake for 10-12 minutes, till they unfold, begin to crackle and seem dry on high.

• Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for two minutes before moving them to a wire rack to cool down utterly.

• once the cookies have cooled for ten minutes, press a chocolate heart into the middle of every cookie. Move the cookies to the electric refrigerator (so the hearts do not soften too much) to line for half-hour.

• rouse temperature before serving.