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Makes
3-4 dozen coronary heart cookies
Author Notes
I produce a batch of these every 365 days for Valentine’s Day to piece with my mates, family, and co-workers. My husband gets a special plate embellished with red hots (because they’re his favourite), which tastes scrumptious when you undoubtedly feel devour including them to your cookies. My favourite half about these cookies is that they hotfoot back and forth undoubtedly successfully when it’s essential switch them to work or mail them to a ways-away loved ones :). No crumbling, no breaking! —d_ribbens
Ingredients
1/2 cup
softened butter
1/2 cup
vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cups
granulated sugar
1/2 cup
dark molasses
2
eggs
4 cups
all-reason flour
1/2 teaspoon
salt
2 1/4 teaspoons
baking soda
2 1/2 teaspoons
ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons
ground cloves
1 1/2 teaspoons
ground cinnamon-
red and/or red adorning sugar
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coronary heart-formed cookie cutters of diminutive/medium dimension
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 levels F.
- In a extensive mixing bowl, cream the butter and shortening collectively except successfully-combined, 1-2 minutes.
- Add the granulated sugar and beat except the combination is fluffy.
- Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, and add molasses. Beat except at ease.
- In a separate extensive bowl, inch flour, salt, baking soda, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon collectively. Step by step add to the wet combination within the blending bowl except dough is blended and at ease.
- Refrigerate dough ~30 minutes wrapped in plastic wrap.
- On a floured surface, roll out 1/4 of the dough to between 0.5-1.0 cm thick. In the reduction of out coronary heart shapes and beautify the tip with red/red sugar. If sugar is now now not sticking, that you just would be able to be ready to brush the tops with a runt water or milk to assist stick. I really maintain a extraordinarily diminutive coronary heart-formed cookie cutter so I excellent absorb a diminutive bowl with the sugar and plop the runt hearts in there, swirling them around to coat your entire surface.
- Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or except cookies are excellent browning across the perimeters. These cookies will unfold reasonably reasonably, so hotfoot away a entire lot of room between cookies on the cookie sheet.
- Cool on a wire rack and revel in!
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