Any pastry that has an easily recognizable shape attracts more attention than standard circles or squares. In addition, the type of cake may hint to the eater about the attitude of the chef. The “Heart” cookies, of course, will most strongly “fall to the court” on Valentine's Day. However, for a birthday - even for her husband, even for children - it will be quite appropriate to bake it. And just like that, without any holiday, it will tell loved ones how much you appreciate and love them.
Sweet valentines
Most often, people bake shortbread cookies "Hearts". Each has his own recipe for dough , with tricks, but you can use the most ordinary one: a glass of flour is sifted into a bowl, mixed with a spoon of sugar and one hundred grams of soft butter chopped into pieces. All this is rubbed with your hands until you get a soft, non-stick and crumbling dough. It is wrapped in film and hidden in a refrigerator. It should be cooled for at least a quarter of an hour; many confectioners believe that it is better to devote an entire hour to this stage. Then the dough is rolled into a layer. The thickness of the rolling depends on your tastes: from a thin cookie “Heart” it turns out crispy and bakes quickly, if left thicker it will be soft and crumbly. Billets are cut out with a cookie cutter, laid out on a baking sheet and put into the oven for a third of an hour with a temperature of 200 degrees. Glaze is preparing. Half a bar of dark chocolate is broken into small pieces and placed in a water bath. At the end, a couple of tablespoons of butter are laid and kneaded until smooth. Ready cookies are carefully poured with icing and immediately sprinkled with crushed any nuts and colored confectionery crumbs.
"Hearts" with jam
You can cook more intricate cookies "Hearts." The recipe is more complex, but quite realizable. Almonds (a glass) are immersed in boiling water for three minutes, filtered and cooled. Peel is removed from the kernels and they are ground in a blender. The egg is divided into yolk and protein. A glass of flour is mixed with nut crumbs, two and a half tablespoons of sugar, vanilla and a pinch of salt. Frozen oil (150 grams) is finely chopped and added to the dry mixture with the yolk. The dough is kneaded until smooth and hides in the cold for an hour. “Heart-shaped” blanks are made with a cookie cutter and divided in half. Holes are cut out in one of the halves, leaving the edges half a centimeter. Whole and “holey” billets are paired, placed on a sheet and put into the oven for ten minutes (temperature 175). When the cookies have cooled, jam is placed in the pits, and all together is sprinkled with powder.
Oatmeal "Hearts"
An interesting and quick recipe - you don’t need to stand anything in the cold. Half a pack (100 grams) of margarine is kneaded with a fork, combined with an egg, a spoonful of quenched soda and a glass of sugar and frayed with all the ingredients. A glass of ordinary oatmeal is ground, mixed with the same amount of flour. Both masses are combined, dough is kneaded from them, rolled out - and hearts are cut. They will stay in the oven before acquiring a tan. After cooling, the Heart cookies are glued in pairs with any jam, preferably red, chocolate or fondant.
Rosemary and Nuts Cookies
For him, a glass with a quarter of flour is first mixed, half a glass of crushed walnuts, half a spoon of salt and a half and a half of rosemary. Half a glass of soft butter is beaten for three minutes with a quarter glass of sugar, then a spoon of vanilla is poured - and another three minutes of whipping. The next three minutes - already with the addition of flour mixture. The dough is rolled on parchment and cooled for half an hour. Then the actual “Heart” cookie is cut out, sprinkled with brown sugar and baked for a quarter of an hour at 150 degrees.
Cranberry Recipe
In this case, heart- shaped cookies are made in a completely different way than in previous recipes. In a bowl, a spoon mixes powdered sugar (three quarters of a glass), a glass of butter, five - flour, four tablespoons of vanilla and half - salt. The last to be distributed is half a glass of dried cranberries. Who does not like sourness, can replace the berries with cherries. The dough is laid out in shape, a third of an hour the cake is baked, and only then are the hearts cut out. From above they can be glazed and decorated with powder.
Waffle maker cookies
It doesn’t matter if you have preserved the old one, which is heated on the stove, or started up with a modern, electric one - a tasty result is guaranteed. The most delicious heart cookies in a waffle iron are obtained from this test: two eggs are beaten to foam with a pinch of salt and half a glass of sugar. Half a glass of fat sour cream is added, two glasses of flour and a little soda are poured. If you want cookies with a chocolate note, add a couple of spoons of cocoa powder. The dough is kneaded with a spoon; if it turned out to be too thick - it is diluted with milk. It remains to pour it into a waffle iron and bake cookies.