Valentine’s Day Cookies

My Valen­tine’s Day Cook­ies are sim­i­lar to the Hal­loween Sablés Cook­ies I loved mak­ing for Hal­loween. The idea is the same, but, since these are Valen­tine’s day cook­ies, I am using heart-shaped cook­ie cut­ters and straw­ber­ry pre­serve for the red col­or. I also decid­ed to use a dif­fer­ent recipe for the dough, that does not con­tain any almond flour. That way, you can gift the cook­ies to every­one, includ­ing those with nut aller­gies.

Recipe

French recipe here. As I men­tioned before, I am using straw­ber­ry pre­serve. Alter­na­tive­ly, you could use rasp­ber­ry pre­serve or any oth­er red pre­serve.

You will need heart-shaped cook­ie cut­ters.

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Valen­tine’s Day Cook­ies

Course

Cook­ies

Prep Time

10 min­utes

Cook Time

10 min­utes

Serv­ings

peo­ple

Ingre­di­ents

• 9 oz. All pur­pose flour (250g)
• 4 1/2 oz. but­ter (125g)
• 4 1/2 oz. gran­u­lat­ed sug­ar (125g)
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 egg
• straw­ber­ry pre­serve (enough to spread on cook­ies)
• pow­dered sug­ar (for dec­o­ra­tion)

Course Cook­ies Prep Time 10 min­utes Cook Time 10 min­utes Serv­ings peo­ple Ingre­di­ents 9 oz. All pur­pose flour (250g) 4 1/2 oz. but­ter (125g) 4 1/2 oz. gran­u­lat­ed sug­ar (125g) 1 pinch salt 1 egg straw­ber­ry pre­serve (enough to spread on cook­ies) pow­dered sug­ar (for dec­o­ra­tion)

Instruc­tions

1. Pre­heat oven to 350 degrees Fahren­heit.
2. Mix the flour, soft­ened but­ter, gran­u­lat­ed sug­ar, salt and egg, either by hand or by putting it in your food proces­sor, until you have a uni­form dough. Gath­er the dough into a ball.

   
3. Using a rolling pin, roll it out, and use your cook­ie cut­ters to cut out your cook­ies. For each cook­ie you will be mak­ing, you will need one “bot­tom” cook­ie and one top “cook­ie.” So if you are mak­ing dif­fer­ent shapes, make sure you have at least 2 of each shape (one will be the top cook­ie, the oth­er one the bot­tom). Make an open­ing on each cook­ie what you intend to use as a top cook­ie. I used a small­er heart-shaped cook­ie cut­ter to make the open­ing. If you don’t have a small­er cook­ie cut­ter, you can draw an open­ing with a knife.

   
4. Place your cook­ies on a bak­ing pan cov­ered with parch­ment paper. Bake for 10–15 min­utes (depend­ing on the thick­ness of your cook­ies).

   
5. Spread straw­ber­ry pre­serve on the cook­ies with no open­ings (the bot­tom cook­ies). Sprin­kle pow­dered sug­ar on the cook­ies with open­ings (the top cook­ies).

   
6. Then, place each top cook­ie on top of its bot­tom cook­ie. Enjoy!

   

Recipe Notes

Tip: keep the part you removed to make an open­ing on your top cook­ies. You will have small heart cook­ies, that you can sprin­kle with pow­dered sug­ar before serv­ing.

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Bon Appétit, and Hap­py Valen­tine’s Day!

French Mom

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Recipe Name

Valen­tine’s Day Cook­ies

Author Name

French Mom Cook­ing

Pub­lished On

2018-02-12