If you're asking yourself, Where's the Beef...don't worry. It's not in these cookies.
These chocolate cut-out cookies are just decorated to look like a side of beef. They'd make a sweet gift for your dude, the perfect ending to a steak dinner, or a festive dessert for a BBQ. (In Texas, we have BEEF BBQ...you North Carolinians, check here.)
I bought the cookie cutter on etsy, but you could always use any cow-shaped cookie cutter and just freehand the lines. Call it "abstract beef."
As for the cookie recipe, I wish I could give you the exact one I used for these today, but I'll have to wait until October 7th (eep!).
In the meantime, use any chocolate cut-out cookie recipe, like this one.
To make Love Me Tenderloin Cookies, you'll need:
- chocolate cut-out cookies
- royal icing, tinted with AmeriColor Bright White
- disposable icing bag
- coupler and #2 tip
- large heart sprinkles
Cut out and bake the cookies, taking care not to press the sectioned cutter so forcefully into the dough that it cuts it into separate pieces.
Use a #2 tip to outline the cookie and sections with white icing.
Place a dot of icing approximately where a tenderloin would be. (I studied more illustrations of cuts of beef that I ever thought I would and this is the best place I could come up with.)
Place a heart sprinkle onto the dot of icing.
Let set about 1 hour before packaging.
Mmm....beefy.
Gorgeous cookies!!! I didn't even know there were cookie cutters like this :) Great idea!
ReplyDeleteThese are so cute, love the little heart! :)
ReplyDeleteFun!
ReplyDeleteI totally went straight to etsy & bought this cookie cutter so I can make these cookies for my father-in-law who is a cow farmer!! He us going to love these!!! Thanks for the great ideas!!!
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable! And they could be man as gingerbread cookies too!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute!
ReplyDeleteThese are sweet! You are my cookie hero! I gave you a shout out on my blog here: http://frostedbakery.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/guess-how-many-cookie-cutters-i-have-no-seriously-guess/ --thank you for the amazing step-by-step tutorials with pictures and clear directions! I can only hope to one day be as good as you :)
ReplyDeleteWait a minute!!!
ReplyDeleteEnough about the BEEF already!!!
YOUR BOOK IS OUT FOR PRE-ORDER!!!!!
WHAT!!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxxoxoxoxoxo
Celebrate!!!!!!
I love that you make it so easy for us to choose beef or pork:) I'd forgotten about last year's pigs.
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ReplyDeleteThese cookies are TOO CUTE!! Thanks for sharing them with us!
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool; I love it!
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