For the cookie dough:
3 cups sifted all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter or margarine
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg slightly beaten
3 tablespoons light cream
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Seedless raspberry jam
Confectioner's sugar, for dusting
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. In a mixing bowl sift together dry ingredients. Add butter and mix well with electric mixer or pastry blender. Add egg, cream and vanilla. Mix until the dough comes together. Shape dough into two disks and wrap in plastic wrap, if desired chill the dough in the refrigerator for easy handling.
3. Place one disk on a well-floured board, place a sheet of floured wax paper over dough and roll with rolling pin 1/8 inch thickness. Remove wax paper, cut dough with heart-shape cutter, use a smaller heart cutter to cut a window out of half cookies. With a spatula, carefully transfer cookies 2 inches apart, to ungreased cookie sheets. Repeat with remaining dough. Gather scraps and roll out again to make more cookies. Bake 5 - 8 minutes, or until lightly browned at edges. Remove to wire racks to cool.
4. Using sifter, dust half a heart cookies, only with window, with confectioners' sugar.
5. Spread seedless raspberry jam over each uncut cookies and carefully top with powdered sugar dusted cookies. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
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