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Heart Cookies
You never can tell when you might need some heart-shaped cookies, right? These gorgeous morsels are tasty and really quite easy to make and decorate, and as you see, they can be very impressive!
Below you’ll find pictures that Drew took while I made these cookies so that you can see the technique I have invented that makes stunning cookies pretty easy to turn out, pretty fast. And I’ll even give you the recipe, with a bonus offer or two included: Just .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Roll out the chilled dough and cut with heart-shaped cutters (I’ve got quite a collection—I pick them up through the year, but the pickings are particularly good around Valentine’s).
After baking and cooling completely, I make a frosting glaze with powdered sugar and milk or cream. Starting with plain white glaze, I brush it on the cookies with a pastry brush. I find I even like the brush marks, which make the cookies look even artier. I do about 1/3 of the cookies in white glaze, then tint some pink and do another 1/3, then finish up with more food coloring to make the glaze dark red. Bring on the red dye 2!
Colored sugars are the easiest decoration of all, and they come in lots of great colors and shapes. Put a few tablespoons of each in shallow dishes and dip the freshly glazed cookies in the sugars. Try different colored sugars over the different color glazes to get more color combinations.
I like to paint the larger cookies with zig zags and stripes, and I’ve figured out the easiest method imaginable. Spoon glaze in the corner of a plastic sandwich bag, twist the open top and squeeze, then take a tiny snip off the corner, and use it like a pastry decorating bag to paint free-form stripes and plaids. Again, use three colors of glaze for more variety and combinations.
Leave the finished cookies out until the glaze gets very hard. Store in an air-tight container. You can even make these way ahead and freeze them. How about having some on ice for when the Right Romantic Moment strikes?
Doesn’t this picture make you want a latte or a cup of hot tea?
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