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Love Cookies for Valentine's Day
For our Valentines Day Love Cookies we made rolled sugar cookies that turned out tender, tasty, flat and just beautiful for painting and decorating. It was also super easy to roll out and use our heart shaped cookie cutters.
- Prep time
- 8 min
- Cook time
- 8 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened (227g)
- 1 1/2 cup icing sugar (180g)
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 2 tsp almond extract
- 2 1/2 cup all purpose flour (344g)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- 1
Allow butter to soften by leaving out for a couple of hours. Cream softened butter and sugar together.
- 2
Add egg and extract and mix.
- 3
Mix flour with baking powder and salt, then add, little by little to the wet mix until incorporated. The dough should not stick. If sticky add a bit more flour until just not sticky.
- 4
Preheat 400°F.
- 5
Flour working surface and roll out to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut out cookie shapes.
- 6
Bake 7-8 mins.
- 7
Wait one day before decorating cookies.