Heres My Heart Cookies Food

THUMBPRINT HEART COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• With an electric mixer, cream together the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the egg and vanilla and continue mixing until fully incorporated. Add in the flour and salt and continue blending until combined.
• Shape the dough into 1" balls. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet 1 1/2 inches apart and gently press your thumb in the centre twice, to form a heart indent (this is where the jam will be placed). Bake for 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven, transfer to a cooling rack and let cool before filling the centres with around a teaspoon of your favourite jam.

HEART-SHAPED COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cream sugar and butter with an electric mixer until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Mix in egg and vanilla extract. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl and add to butter mixture. Mix well.
• Put a handful of the dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll to desired thickness. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Put the rolled dough, including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes or longer. Repeat the process with scraps after cutting cookies.
• Cut 24 heart-shaped cookies of the same size from the dough. Use a smaller heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut a second hole in half of the cookies; this will be the window where the jam will show through. Transfer the cut cookies to a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer the baking sheet to a wire rack to allow to cool, 20 to 30 minutes. Spread about 1/2 teaspoon of jam into the centers of the cookies without the heart-cut centers. Sprinkle powdered sugar on the rest of the cookies with the heart-cut centers, and mount onto the cookies with jam.

SHORTBREAD HEARTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the butter and 1 cup of sugar until they are just combined. Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour and salt, then add them to the butter-and-sugar mixture. Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together. Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and shape into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes.
• Roll the dough 1/2-inch thick and cut with a 3-inch heart-shaped cutter. Place the hearts on an ungreased baking sheet and sprinkle with sugar. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the edges begin to brown.
• Allow to cool to room temperature.

CHOCOLATE HEART COOKIES

Steps:

• In a small mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar.
• Beat in vanilla.
• Combine the flour and cocoa; gradually add to creamed mixture.
• On a lightly floured surface roll the dough to 1/4-inch thickness.
• Cut with a heart-shaped cookie cutter placing 2-inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes.
• Remove to wire racks to cool.
• In a microwave safe bowl, heat vanilla chips and 1 Tablespoon of shortening until melted, stirring frequently. Dip both sides of the cookie into melted mixture (so you make a V-shape from the point of the cookie out to the middle of both rounded tops).
• In another microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate chips and remaining shortening, stirring frequently.
• Drizzle over the cookies.
• Place on wire rack to dry.

HERE'S MY HEART COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter, gradually add sugar, at med speed.
• Add flour and vanilla; mix well.
• Shape into ball, wrap in wax paper.
• Chill 2 hours.
• Roll dough to 1/4 inch thick on floured surface.
• Cut with 2 inch heart shaped cookie cutter.
• Bake at 300* for 25 minutes or until just turning brown at the edges.
• Cool on rack.
• Melt chocolate on low heat.
• Dip half of each cookie in chocolate.
• Sprinkle with nuts.