Heart-Shaped Cookies

Description

I used a no-fail sugar cookie recipe to make these wonderful heart-shaped cookies filled with strawberry jam. I know you will enjoy this recipe.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 (10 ounce) jar strawberry jam
  • ¼ cup powdered sugar, or as needed

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  2. Cream sugar and butter with an electric mixer until fluffy
  3. about 5 minutes. Mix in egg and vanilla extract. Mix flour
  4. baking powder
  5. and salt together in a separate bowl and add to butter mixture. Mix well.
  6. 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
  7. including the parchment paper
  8. on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes or longer. Repeat the process with scraps after cutting cookies.
  9. 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.
  10. Bake in the preheated oven until golden
  11. 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer the baking sheet to a wire rack to allow to cool
  12. 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
  13. and mount onto the cookies with jam.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Servings: 12

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