Let your baking do the talking on Valentine’s Day with butter and almond cut-out cookies shaped perfectly to say I <3 U.
Recipe courtesy of Domino Sugar
Valentine Butter and Almond Cookies
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- Prep Time
- Minutes
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- Cook Time
- Minutes
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- Yield
- 2 Dozen Sandwich Cookies
- Difficulty Level Easy
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Confectioners Sugar
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup finely ground blanched almonds
- 1/3 cup seedless raspberry preserves
- additional Confectioners Sugar
Instructions
- Beat confectioners' sugar and butter together in large mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
- Add egg and almond extract; beat well, scraping down the sides of the bowl often.
- Gradually add flour to sugar mixture and beat until well mixed. Stir in ground almonds.Gradually add flour to sugar mixture and beat until well mixed. Stir in ground almonds.
- Cover and refrigerate dough 1 hour until firm.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- On well floured surface, roll out half of dough at a time, to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut with 2-inch round cookie cutter.
- Cut out small heart shape in center of half the cookies.
- Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned at edges. Cool completely.
- Spread cookies without heart cut-outs with 1 teaspoon preserves each Top with heart cut-out cookies. Press together lightly.
- Sprinkle with confectioners sugar.
- Recipe Type : Cookies & BarsHolidayValentines
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