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    Best Ever Lovely Heart Cookies

    Written by Kathrin (Leave a Comment)

    Homemade heart cookies are perfect for weddings or mother's day. The recipe is extremely easy, so it's best to bake them right away.

    Heart Cookies

    Whether for valentine's day, mother's day, weddings, or just without a special occasion, these delicious shortcrust heart cookies always hit the spot!

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    • Taste and Occasion
    • Ingredients
    • How to make the Heart Cookies
    • Top Tip
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    • Variations
    • Nutrition

    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.

    Lovely Wedding Snacks

    Ingredients

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    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.

    Gifts for special Occasions

    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.

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    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.

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    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….

    Shortcrust Cookies

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    Heart Cookies

    An easy basic recipe for homemade heart cookies - use as wedding giveaways, edible place cards, or small gifts for valentine's day and mother's day.
    Prep Time15 mins
    Baking Time10 mins
    Servings: 60
    Calories: 96kcal

    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.

    Ingredient substitutions

    Do you want to replace some ingredients? Here you find tips for baking ingredient substitutions!

    Variations

    Cookies always hit the spot on any occasion! How about these bunny cookies for Easter, the lemon cookies in the summer, these traditional German cinnamon stars, or these hearty cookies as a snack?

    Nutrition

    Nutrition Facts
    Heart Cookies
    Amount Per Serving
    Calories 96 Calories from Fat 45
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 5g8%
    Saturated Fat 3g19%
    Trans Fat 0.1g
    Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
    Monounsaturated Fat 1g
    Cholesterol 15mg5%
    Sodium 33mg1%
    Potassium 24mg1%
    Carbohydrates 12g4%
    Fiber 0.2g1%
    Sugar 5g6%
    Protein 1g2%
    Vitamin A 113IU2%
    Vitamin C 0.02mg0%
    Calcium 12mg1%
    Iron 0.4mg2%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
    Homemade heart cookies are perfect for weddings or mother's day. The recipe is extremely easy, so it's best to bake them right away.Homemade heart cookies are perfect for weddings or mother's day. The recipe is extremely easy, so it's best to bake them right away.Homemade heart cookies are perfect for weddings or mother's day. The recipe is extremely easy, so it's best to bake them right away.

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