Dessert for Dudes: Love Me Tender(loin)

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.