Delicious Valentine Heart Cookies!
Make these Valentine Heart Cookies for your loved ones!
For this Valentines Day I made three different Valentines Heart Cookies. I cut cookies from cookie dough:
plain round cookies
round cookies with a heart cut out
plain heart cookies
Then I baked these three different cookies in oven. After baking and cooling down on a plate: I decorated the cookies with jelly. These Valentine Heart Cookies are an easy and playful way of making cookies.
How to make these Valentine Heart Cookies?
First you need to get the cooking tools and ingredients ready.
Then just follow the instructions below.
Enjoy the baking!
Cooking Tools:
small mixing bowl
large mixing bowl
teaspoon
tablespoon
cutting board
greased baking tray
round cookie cutter*
heart cookie cutter
rolling pin
oven
microwave
Ingredients:
1 cup (200 gram) unsalted butter
1 cup (125 gram) icing sugar
2 1/2 cup (350 gram) flour
1 egg white
pinch of salt
2 tsp (9 gram) vanilla sugar
4 tablespoons raspberry or strawberry jam
2 teaspoons jelly powder, raspberry or strawberry
Preparations:
preheat oven to 400º F (200º C)
First make jelly:
mix 2 teaspoons jelly powder and 4 tablespoons jam
heat in microwave until hot
set aside in refrigerator
Then make dough for the cookies:
mix butter, icing sugar and egg white until smooth
stir in salt and vanilla sugar
then add flour and knead it
set aside in the refrigerator for 1 hour
then with rolling pin roll out pastry until it is 1/8 inch (3mm) thick
to prevent sticking of dough to the rolling pin use some extra flour for the surface
cut out round cookies
Make the hearts:
place half of the cookies on cutting board and cut with cookie cutter hearts out of the middle
then put all the cookies on a greased baking tray and put tray in preheated oven
bake cookies for about 8 – 10 minutes
Finally make a variety of Valantine Heart Cookies:
spread jelly on cookies without hearts and cover them with cookies with hearts cut out or plain hearts
spread jelly on hearts
This way you will have a variety of Valentine Heart Cookies!
Prep time: 30 min
Amount of cookies: 18-20
Waiting time: 1 hour
Enjoy right away or keep them crunchy in an air-tight cookie container!
These delicious cookies have the healthy #vanilla sugar in them.
Health benefits of #vanilla, may:
have antibacterial, antioxidant and antidepressant effects
help with muscle and nerve function
regulate blood pressure
Eat and Live Well!
* For the round cookie cutter I used biscuit cutters from RSVP International, see here: