Conversation Heart Cookies Recipe

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Conversation Heart Cookies Ingredients:

You can get the full list of ingredients with measurements in the recipe card below.

• Cookie mix – You can use any cookie recipe you want. That also includes store-bought, bagged cookie mix. Because this post is more about the decorating techniques than how to make the cookies, we’re not too specific here.
• Vanilla almond bark – Almond bark is much easier to use than white chocolate chips. You could use white candy melts, but I don’t like how those taste.
• Food coloring – You need oil based food coloring to dye any type of chocolate. Water-based or gel food coloring will cause the chocolate to seize.

How To Make Conversation Heart Cookies:

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Make your cookie dough.

I mentioned this above, but in case you skipped over the ingredients list and jumped right to the recipe, you can use any cookie dough you want. Homemade, bagged, whatever.

This recipe is more for the decorating.

We use sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies in this post, but you can use whatever you prefer.

Take a small piece of dough and press it into the heart mold.

Quick note: There are a ton of conversation heart molds you can buy online. Choose one where the letters are indented into the mold and it will be able to etch the sayings onto the melted chocolate we use later. That makes this exact look.

The amount of cookie dough you use is going to vary based on the size of your mold, but you don’t want to fill the entire mold since the dough will rise slightly.

Continue until each cavity has a piece of dough in it.

Squish the dough down so it fills out to the sides of the mold.

Bake your cookies.

The timing will depend on the size of the molds.

My cousin made three different sizes and her timing ranged from four to eight minutes, so start checking the cookies at four minutes and go from there.

Quick note: You can bake silicone molds directly on the oven racks. But, you could also place them on a baking sheet and put the entire sheet in the oven.

I do that if I’m making something with a batter, like a cake, because the silicone mold is really flexible and there’s a chance of spilling.

Since cookie batter is solid, you don’t have that worry.

Let your cookies cool, then remove them from the molds.

Clean the molds completely, making sure there’s not any cookie residue behind. This is especially important if you made a dark cookie because it can leave some dark spots on your light chocolate.

Make sure you’re not leaving behind any water droplets either because those can leave holes in the chocolate on top.

Split your almond bark into bowls.

You’ll want one bowl for each color.

Melt it according to the package.

Quick note: I always chop in into smaller pieces and put it in a microwave-safe bowl. Then, I microwave for one minute and stir. If it’s not done melting, I put it back to microwave and stir at 30 second intervals.

Add a few drops of oil based food coloring to each bowl and stir.

Spoon some melted chocolate into each cavity of the silicone mold.

The amount will depend on the size of your mold. But, you want to fill it about 20% of the way up the mold.

You want to alternate the colors to you have a variety of each color.

Gently tap your mold on the counter to remove any air bubbles.

Place your cookies back into the mold and slightly push the cookie into the colored chocolate.

You don’t want to push it all the way to the bottom because you want there to be a layer of solid chocolate between the mold and the cookies.

Let your cookies harden into the chocolate.

You want them to cool on the counter, not in the refrigerator. The latter can cause the chocolate to bloom.

Pop them out of the mold when the chocolate is hardened to room temperature.

You can then add them to a cookie platter or package them into clear treat bags with a little bit of paper shred and tied with Valentine’s Day ribbon.

Variations:

If you couldn’t find one of the conversation heart molds with the letters indented, like we chatted about above, you can still make these.

Use a heart-shaped silicone mold and follow all of the steps.

Then, buy a bag of mini alphabet sprinkles. Use a toothpick to add a little melted almond bark on the back of them, then use a pair of tweezers to place them down on your cookies and spell out whatever you want.

If you have steady hands and you have neat handwriting, you can use an edible marker to write the sayings.

And finally, you could also use leftover colored melted almond bark or royal icing to pipe the words on.