Well, Valentine’s day is coming up and love it or hate it, February 14th will be here soon! I decided to start the festivities off by making up a batch up Vanilla Heart Cookies and I think you should, too! Though I normally stick to soft and chewy cookies, these ones are crunchy with a simple, tasty vanilla flavour. The recipe is from “The Big Book of Baking”. Watch out though, these cookies spread quite a bit and may not look done after the required 15 minutes- but they are!! Look for that tinge of golden brown around the edges and you should be fine. Share the love!
Vanilla Heart Cookies
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting
- scant 3/4 cup butter, cut into small pieces, plus extra for greasing
- 1 1/8 cup superfine sugar, plus extra for dusting (** If you don’t have superfine sugar, simply put regular white sugar into your coffee grinder. It only takes about 3 seconds of grinding- you don’t want icing sugar, so keep watch!)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 F, then lightly grease a cookie sheet (I used a silpat).
Sift the flour into a large bowl. Add the butter and rub it in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Stir in the sugar and vanilla extract and mix together to form a firm dough.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured counter to a thickness of 1/2 inch 0r 1 cm.
Stamp out 12 hearts with a heart-shaped cookie cutter measuring 2 inches or 5 cm across.
Arrange the hearts on the prepared cookie sheet. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, or until just coloured.
Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely. Dust with a little superfine sugar just before serving.
These are putting me in the mood to bake up some Valentine’s Cookis!..right about..now!! Looks good!
Darling cookies!!
Thanks guys!
Alicia, get started on your V-Day cookies!!! I might have to taste test- make sure they aren’t poisonous, of course ; )