Shortbread Oculus Sandwich Cookies Filled Alongside Strawberry Jam
Shortbread Heart Sandwich Cookies filled amongst Strawberry Jam
This visit originally stemmed from the classic Linzer Cookie that is a nutty shortbread sandwich cookie filled amongst raspberry jam. I decided shortbread + strawberry jam would a bang-up combo for this Valentine's Day treat. If you lot are a novice cookie decorator, this is a perfect projection for you lot since it is simply i solid color, in addition to by in addition to large jam. You tin come across I fifty-fifty did roughly amongst powdered carbohydrate sprinkled over instead of icing - fifty-fifty easier!
Of class the packaging of these cookies is my favorite part. Here is a listing of supplies used :
I also position roughly inward Rectangle Window Boxes (Set of 10 for $10) - bang-up for vecino gifts, instructor gifts or to drib off for friends.
I used my favorite basic shortbread recipe. It is thence elementary to stir together in addition to takes no fourth dimension at all. Unlike my soft carbohydrate cookie recipe, shortbread cookies are a flake sandy in addition to crumbly. The give-up the ghost along their shape perfectly when they bake because at that spot is no egg, baking soda or baking powder. I made it during the day, position inward the fridge in addition to thence rolled them out amongst Emma afterwards school. Keeps for weeks inward the refrigerator!
For the sandwiches, you'll demand solid hearts for the bottom in addition to a pump amongst small-scale cutout pump for the top.
3 sticks of butter, room temp
1 loving cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
3 1/2 cups of flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt
Cream together butter in addition to carbohydrate inward a mixer until pale. Add vanilla in addition to mix in. Add flour in addition to common salt together in addition to stir together tardily simply until combined. Turn dough out onto plastic wrap, wrap it tightly in addition to give-up the ghost along it inward the fridge for 30+ minutes, upward to two weeks.
Roll out on a floured surface. Cut out amongst cutters.
Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet (keeps from sticking without spray + piece of cake construct clean up!) inward 350 marking for 12-14 minutes, simply until edges foremost to brown. Cookies should live firm.
Let cool, in addition to thence H2O ice amongst a elementary butter icing... nosotros tinted ours a rattling pale pinkish to contrast amongst the deep strawberry jam.We used a disposable pastry handbag (100 for $14) for the icing. Just cutting a small-scale snip off the destination - no tip needed! We used roughly other handbag inward the same fashion for the jam.
Butter Icing Recipe
1 stick of butter
1/4 loving cup of milk
3-4 cups of confectioners sugar
Melt butter in addition to milk together inward the microwave. Stir inward confectioners sugar. Add to a greater extent than milk to thin, or to a greater extent than confectioners carbohydrate to thicken.
I heated the jam inward the microwave for close xv seconds to become inward to a greater extent than melty - in addition to thence it form of molds to the within of the cookie in addition to sets up.
Use a trivial pinkish icing similar mucilage to stick the function past times pump to the bottom heart. Then, produce amount amongst Strawberry Jam.
If you lot run out of icing patience, sprinkle roughly tops amongst powdered carbohydrate : )
These are perfect for adults amongst less of a sweetness molar - prissy amongst tea or coffee... or breakfast : )
Last year, I made these amongst the Copper Cutters. They are rattling expensive, thence this year, I'm offering a gear upward of 3 cheap cutters that tin live used inward the same way! Yay for fun, cheap hearts... non everything has to live expensive to live bang-up : )
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