Heart Centred Cookies

For this Valentine’s Day this is what I have prepared. The only twisted part is to make the heart shapes stand straight and get it combined. Rest its pretty simple and fast to make. I made about 5 batches with this recipe and took it to my office for a small Valentine ’s Day celebration. My colleagues enjoyed it.

So try to make it.

Ingredients 

Butter – ¾ cup

Castor Sugar – ¾ cup

Egg – 1

Maida / all-purpose flour – 2 cups

Baking powder – ¼ tsp

Salt – 1 pinch

Red food colour

Strawberry essence

Heart shape cookie cutter 

Note : all in room temperature

Method 

1.           Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

2.           To this beat the egg for a minute.

3.           Now add the essence and mix.

4.           In another bowl swift together maida, baking powder and salt.

5.           Mix the dry mixture to the wet mixture.

6.           Mix well and knead it to a dough.

7.           Tint 1/4^th of the dough with red colour and wrap into a plastic wrap.

8.           Wrap the remaining plain dough also in a plastic dough.

9.           Refrigerate the doughs for 2 hrs.

10.      Lightly flour the rolling surface and roll red dough into a thick rectangular sheet. With the cookie cutter, cut as many shape as possible.

11.      Repeat the same with the remaining red dough.

12.      Place the cut heart one above the other to make a long heart rod (as shown in the figure). Refrigerate for 15 min.

13.      Make a long thick strip of the white dough and fill the groove of the heart.

14.      Now roll the plain dough and rollup to cover the red dough and roll it to make a cylinder.

15.      Wrap up in a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hrs.

16.      Preheat the oven to 180^OC.

17.      Unwrap and cut the dough into 1/4 inch slices.

18.      Line a baking tray with butter paper and place these cookies with a little gap between each cookies.
19.      Bake the cookies at 180^OC for 12 min.

20.      Remove to cool.