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Heavenly Hearts
Great for parties and gifts
This Highland Shortbread cookie recipe is generations old. It's perfect for
cutting into hearts. Double the batch, stack the cookies on top of each other
with icing between, and write a romantic message on a slip of paper. Put the
slip between the two cookies so it sticks out a little. Perfect for that special
someone! It's a great activity for sleepover parties too! Enjoy
You'll need:
1/2 stick of butter
1/3 cup of sugar
1 1/2 oz. Cream cheese (or 1/2 of a 3oz.pkg.
1 egg
1 tsp. flavoring (vanilla, rum or lemon)
1 1/2 cups of flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
To Make It:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Get a big bowl. Cream the butter, sugar and cream cheese together until the
mixture is really fluffy.
Then, beat the egg up with a fork in a cup. Add the egg and your flavoring to
your cream cheese and sugar mixture. Beat everything together until it's mixed.
Pour the flour, salt and baking powder together into another bowl. Mix them
up together really good.
Slowly combine the flour mixture with the egg mixture. When it's all mixed
together, you've got dough!
Put a couple of spoons of flour on a cutting board. That's so your dough
won't stick. Then roll out your dough and use a cookie cutter to cut your
cookies. You can also drop the dough by the tablespoon.
Put your cut or dropped cookies onto a greased baking sheet. Bake them at 350
degrees for 20-25 minutes. You can frost them if you want too. But they're so
rich all by themselves that you don't have to do that unless you want to.