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Heart Shaped Cookies

Agnes Hsu
These easy heart shaped cookies make a cute Valentine treat with some added chocolate for that extra special touch!
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Course Dessert
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 150 grams Unsalted butter
  • 60 grams Powdered sugar
  • 1 Large egg white
  • 230 grams All-purpose flour
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla extract
  • Pinch Salt
  • Semisweet chocolate melted
  • Milk optional
  • Sprinkles

Instructions
 

  • Step 1: Bring the butter down to room temperature. Beat the butter with a hand or electric mixer until it’s smooth and creamy.
    Step 2: Gradually add the powdered or confectioner’s sugar to the creamed butter.
    Step 3: Mix the creamy butter and the powdered sugar nicely.
    Step 4: Add the vanilla extract and the egg white to the butter-sugar mixture. Add a pinch of salt to the mixture as well. Mix all the ingredients together.
    Step 5: Gradually add the all-purpose flour to the mixture and use a spatula to mix the flour nicely.
    Step 6: When you’re done mixing the flour thoroughly and the dough turns out nice and smooth, cover the cookie dough with a cotton cloth and keep it in a cool place for half an hour.
    Step 7: After half an hour, uncover the cookie dough and flour the surface you’ll be rolling your cookie dough on. Roll the dough on the prepared surface.
    Step 8: Use a rolling pin to roll the dough. Bring the rolled cookie dough’s thickness to 1 cm or 1.5 cm. Try to roll the dough as evenly as possible.
    Step 9:  Take a heart-shaped cookie cutter and start to cut heart shapes on the rolled dough. Cut as many heart shapes on the rolled dough as possible. After cutting heart shapes, carefully take out the remaining dough and keep it aside, you can knead it into a ball shape or add it to the rest of the dough for the next batches (to roll).
    Baking
    Place a parchment paper on the baking tray and preheat the oven to 180 C or 350 F. Place the cookies on the prepared baking tray (on the parchment paper) and bake them for about 20 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden. Avoid over baking as the cookies will harden as they cool down.
    Decorating the cookies
    Step 10: You can use a regular semisweet chocolate bar or chocolate chips. Melt the chocolate and add a small amount of milk to the melted chocolat to smooth out if desired.
    Step 11: You can dip the full heart cookie or half of it into the melted chocolate.
    Step 12: Sprinkle crushed nuts or any kind of decorative sprinkles on the chocolate dipped part of the cookie. Place the decorated cookies in a dry and cool place until the chocolate has set before serving.
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