Heart shaped sugar cookies
Festive sugar cookies perfect for Valentine's Day
Servings: 24 cookies
Equipment
- Stand mixer or hand held mixer
- Rolling pin
- Wax paper and / or parchment paper
- Heart shaped cookie cutter
- Baking tray
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups (375 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (225 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 egg, large
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 - 1/2 tsp red food colouring gel
Instructions
- In a medium size mixing bowl whisk together the flour, the baking powder and the salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer (or using your hand held mixer) beat the butter until nice and fluffy. Add the sugar and continue to mix until well combined.
- Next, add the egg and the vanilla. Beat well at medium speed until the dough pulls off the side of the bowl and all the ingredients are incorporated together.
- Remove half of the dough and form it into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and set aside.
- To the dough remaining in the bowl add the food colouring. Beat well until the food colouring is incorporated and the dough is uniform in colour. We suggest beginning with 1/4 teaspoon of food colouring gel and increasing from there until you get the colour that you want.
- Form this coloured dough into a ball and wrap it as well with plastic wrap. Chill both balls of dough in the refrigerator for a minimum of 30 minutes.
- When you are ready to shape and bake your cookies, preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Prepare a baking tray with either parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Remove dough from fridge and cut off pieces of both the white and coloured dough. Press them together to make a ball.
- Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to a thickness of about 1/3 inch. We find that rolling the dough between two pieces of either wax paper or parchment paper makes it much easier.
- Use your cookie cutter to cut out your heart shapes. Place your cookie cutter strategically to give you pretty colour patterns.
- Transfer the cookies to the baking tray. When your tray is full, bake in the middle rack of your oven for between 10 - 12 minutes.
- Remove tray from oven and allow the cookies to cool for about 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooking rack.
- Enjoy!