In search of an lovely Valentine’s Day deal with? Make my straightforward Coronary heart Cookies to your sweetheart or your subsequent Galentine’s Day get together!
I simply adore sugar cookies. I make these scrumptious, gentle, buttery cookies not less than twice a 12 months. They’re so cute lower out in hearts and completed with Valentine’s Day sprinkles. They’ll keep recent all week lengthy, making them an ideal, festive lunchbox deal with for February.
Sugar cookie dough does should be refrigerated for not less than two hours so preserve that in thoughts. I virtually at all times make the dough the night time earlier than after which bake them within the morning. They cool fairly shortly and the frosting is straightforward to make!
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Coronary heart Cookies
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
1 cup sugar
2 giant eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Coronary heart Cookie Cutter
Frosting, recipe follows
Pink and pink sprinkles
- Cream collectively butter and shortening. Add sugar and blend till totally integrated. Add eggs one after the other, mixing nicely after every addition. Add vanilla extract. Sift collectively flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to butter-sugar combination.
- Divide the dough into fourths, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill not less than two hours or in a single day.
- Preheat oven to 400 levels. On a flat floor sprinkled with flour, roll one disk of dough to desired thickness. (I want thick sugar cookies.) Lower out with coronary heart cookie cutter. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for about 5-7 minutes or till simply turning golden on the perimeters and funky fully. Repeat with remaining dough. Frost and enhance with Valentine’s Day sprinkles!
Vanilla Frosting
3 cups powdered sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract (or strive 1 tsp almond extract as an alternative)
2 Tbsp milk
- Beat butter till fluffy. Add 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar and mix nicely. Add 1 Tbsp milk and mix till it’s beginning to appear like frosting. Add remaining 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, 1 Tbps milk, and a couple of tsp vanilla extract. Add a bit extra milk in the event you want it to get your required consistency.
Completely satisfied baking,
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