Whether for valentine's day, mother's day, weddings, or just without a special occasion, these delicious shortcrust heart cookies always hit the spot!
Taste and Occasion
This super easy heart cookie recipe is perfect for a variety of occasions. Whether they are homemade wedding cookies, valentine's day cookies, a little present for mother's day, or goodies for dear friends. They're personal, pretty, and delicious all at the same time.
Ingredients
I promise guests or recipients will be extremely happy about such homemade sweet gifts! Much more than about bought wedding cookies and Co., which are offered in the meantime. Why am I so sure? From my own experience 😉 ! The recipe for the wedding cookies is my own - they are the heart cookies I had baked for our wedding. You can easily decorate the wedding cookies with white chocolate coating and silver-gold sugar balls. You can sprinkle them with sugar hearts, cover them with marzipan or fondant, and color them with an airbrush. If you want to use the cookies as place cards or favors, you can personalize them wonderfully.
How to make the Heart Cookies
Let's start: Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Add butter in small pieces and knead into a shortcrust pastry. Add the eggs just before the end. Form shortcrust dough into a large ball and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Now, toll out the dough in small portions. I have had a good experience using plastic wrap as a base. Cut out hearts with a cookie cutter. Then, place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake, a little at a time, at 350°F/175°C for about 10 minutes; they should still be relatively light in color.
After that, decorate the cooled heart cookies with white chocolate coating warmed in a bain-marie or in the microwave, or alternatively with rolled-out and cut-out rolled fondant. Sprinkle sugar balls or other decorations on the still slightly liquid chocolate coating. The fondant can also be decorated with airbrush & food coloring.
Top Tip
If you like, you can put the heart cookies in little bags and tie them with an easy, colorful, or printed fabric ribbon. I recommend you make heart or wedding cookies yourself instead of buying them. However, if you have a lot of guests, it's best to get some help with baking and packaging. Not that the whole thing degenerates into pre-celebratory stress….
Recipe Card
Heart Cookies
Ingredients
- 500 grams (4 cups) all-purpose flour
- 250 gram (1 cup) butter
- 180 grams (1 cup) sugar
- 2 eggs, medium
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch baking powder
- 250 grams (1 cup) white chocolate coating, coarse; alternatively fondant
- decoration ingredients, sugar pearls, hearts and co.
Instructions
- Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Add butter in small pieces and knead into a shortcrust pastry. Add the eggs just before the end. Form shortcrust dough into a large ball and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Roll out the dough in small portions. I have had a good experience using plastic wrap as a base. Cut out hearts with a cookie cutter.
- Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake, a little at a time, at 350°F/175°C for about 10 minutes; they should still be relatively light in color.
- Decorate the cooled heart cookies with white chocolate coating warmed in a bain-marie or in the microwave, or alternatively with rolled-out and cut-out rolled fondant. Sprinkle sugar balls or other decorations on the still slightly liquid chocolate coating. The fondant can also be decorated with airbrush & food coloring.
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Variations
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About Kathrin & Jan
It's like a little miracle to me every time. Seemingly simple ingredients are made into something that can brighten up your life. Butter, sugar, eggs, and flour melt into an airy biscuit, a fine tart, a juicy cake, or a crispy biscuit. Baking simply makes you happy. Welcome and enjoy our blog!
Kathrin & Jan
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