Valentine's Cookies

Dear Theresa,

It's not Valentine's Day yet, but the heart-shaped cookies cutters I received for Christmas called out to me.

This cutout cookie recipe is the exact same one I use for butter cookies...the only difference is substituting a bit of cocoa for 1/6 of the flour (e.g., in the linked recipe, use 5 cups of flour, 1 cup sifted cocoa). You also need to refrigerate chocolate cutouts 15 minutes before baking. Otherwise, the unchilled dough will spread out and leave you with some rather deformed hearts!

As you know, I'd rather not completely cover cookies with icing because it makes them too sweet. But, some people prefer the look, so for a few I slathered on the pink and scribbled a few sweet lines on each!