Valentine Sweet~Hearts

These elegant, rich and buttery cookies, 

 taste as good as they look.

Decadent shortbread heart 
cookies filled with jam. 

Serve with afternoon tea,

a snack or dessert.

I used a basic shortbread recipe 

and added jams in the middle.

Bonne Maman Jam,
this delicious jam, 

a product of France.
strawberry, raspberry, 

wild blueberry and apricot.
I received these little jams

 as a Christmas gift.
from my sweet daughter.
Perfect for the fillings.

Shortbread dough recipe

Ingredients

2 cups flour

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup butter at room temperature

1/2 cup icing sugar (powdered sugar)

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Jam for filling.

Directions

In a bowl, whisk the flour 

with the salt, set aside.

With an electric beater or hand beater, 

beat the soft butter
until smooth (about 1 minute).

Add the icing sugar and 

beat until smooth (about 2 minutes)
Beat in the vanilla extract.

Gently stir in the flour mixture,

just until incorporated.

Flatten the dough into a disk shape, 
wrap in plastic wrap, and chill the dough
for at least an hour.

Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough 
until it is about 1/8 inch thick.

Cut out the cookies with a cookie cutter. 

(Divide the cut out cookies in half,
 and cut half with a small cookie cutter,

heart in the middle.

Spread some jam on each of the cookie bottoms. 

Set a cutout cookie on top of each, over the jam.

Knead the leftover scraps of dough

 into a ball and roll out again

I used half of my dough for

Valentine Cutie-Pies in a previous blog.

Place the unbaked cookies on a 

baking sheet in the refrigerator

 for about 15 minutes.

This will firm up the dough so 

the cookies will maintain their 

shape when baking. 

Bake at 350deg.F for about 15-20 minutes

or until cookie edges are lightly browned.

I sprinkled some with 

icing sugar/powdered sugar.

To avoid getting some powdered

 sugar on the jam 
in the middle, I covered the 

little heart cookie
 cutter with saran wrap and

 placed it over the
 middle of the cookie.

"There is no charm equal 

to tenderness of heart.

~Jane Austen~

To view my blog on Valentine Cutie-Pies,
little hand held pies filled with raspberry jam. 
to view click here.

Thanks for your visit xo

Happy Valentines Day

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