I always feel inadequate when I need to bake anything. Mainly because I have an OTG without temperature control and just 2 baking dishes in which nothing except a cake can be made. I don't have muffin trays or pie dishes or even cookie cutters. I normall make round-shaped cookies by patting them into shape with my hands. But if I need anything heart-shaped, that's a different story, right?
But I used my hands again! Its crude, its far from perfect, but its still a heart!
Heart-Shaped Shortbread Cookies for your Valentine
Makes a dozen cookies
What I Used:
Flour - 1 cup
Unsalted butter - ½ cup and a little more
Powdered sugar - ½ cup (measure after powdering)
Salt - one pinch
Vanilla extract - ½ tsp
How I Made Them:
1. Mix the flour and salt well and keep aside.
2. Cream the butter well and mix in the sugar. Cream further until it has dissolved in the butter.
3. Add the vanilla and mix well.
4. Gently fold in the flour and make into a soft dough. Refrigerate cling-wrapped, for an hour.
5. Gently roll the dough and cut into desired shape. I make small balls and made the heart shape with my hands 🙂
6. Bake in a 180C pre-heated oven for 10-12 minutes.
Share with your valentine while still warm and get ready for the compliments 🙂
Mansi Desai
that looks awesome nags! I was so hoping to see a picture of your "valentine" too in this post:) hehehe...
Nanditha Prabhu
those hearts look perfect! your hands are better than the cookie cutters!:)
Suganya
That is cute, Nags. Better than cookie cutters.
Kalai
Nags...! How adorable you are! I think it's so sweet that you made them with your hands. It just means that there's more love in them! 🙂
Pooja
Nags,
they are nor far from perfect , THEY ARE PERFECT. you made it really well with your hands, truly your hands are creating magic in kitchen 🙂 .
thanks for sharing and participating dear.
Not a Valentine's day person ? hmmm, thats what my hubby is like. but i don't miss to celebrate any event/days of any region to make life full of happy memories.... Coz somehow i can forget on which day he gifted me what ? but i never forget on which Valentine's day he gifted me what :).
TBC
I'm not a V-day person either and just think of it as a Hallmark- holiday. Sometimes I feel what the Shiv Sainiks do in Bombay is just right!
Your cookies look adorable. You call it crude? I think they're cookies with character.:-)
Rachel
Crude? C'mon! They are shaped well! The outcome looks really good..Love the last pic a lot!
Uma
Nice entry. The cookies look so hearty! Love them.
Laavanya
That's really sweet Nags.. they look perfect to me.
Ramya's Mane Adige
Thats soooo damn chweeeeet!!!!! And they seem quite ez to make too... Love the last pic