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Marbled Valentine’s Day Heart-Shaped Cookies

Crispy, tender and flaky bites of pink and white cookie goodness in every bite! With just butter, sugar, flour and a dash of color, this could be the easiest cut out cookies you could make and enjoy!
Course Cookies
Cuisine American
Keyword Eggless, shortbread, Valentine's Day

Ingredients

  • ½ cup softened room temperature unsalted butter
  • ½ cup fine sugar
  • 3 tbsp whipping cream or full fat milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract/essence
  • 1 ½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour/maida
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • Few drops pink color

Instructions

  1. In a small mixing bowl, add the dry ingredients; flour, cornstarch and salt. Mix well using a whisk or spoon and set aside.
  2. Add butter and sugar to a large mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy, scraping down the mixture in between.
  3. Stir in the whipping cream and vanilla essence/extract; beat again until incorporated.
  4. Add the dry ingredients and beat on low until just mixed.
  5. Bring the mixture together with your hands to form a soft and smooth dough.

  6. Take out 2/3rd portion of the dough and set aside. Add a few drops of color (more will give a darker color and less a milder pink color) to the remaining 1/3rd and beat until well blended. Remove, wrap in plastic wrap and chill for about 15 minutes if you feel the dough is too soft.

  7. Wrap the plain dough also in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
  8. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or aluminum foil and set aside. You could even just grease the pans instead too.
  9. Remove the chilled doughs from the fridge.
  10. Take small portions of the pink dough and knead them into the vanilla white dough, to make a marbled big ball of dough.
  11. Take one portion of this marbled cookie dough and roll in between parchment sheets using a rolling pin. You can use a bit of flour if needed. The sheet of dough should not be too thin or too thick.
  12. Cut out cookies with a heart-shaped cookie cutter. Gently remove, taking care not to break them and place on prepared pans.
  13. Just before baking, preheat oven to 350 degrees F or 180 C.
  14. Return the baking sheet with the rolled cookie dough to fridge for the time taken to preheat the oven or about 10 minutes.
  15. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes. 10 minutes will make for a tender crumb and 12 minutes will bake up into a crispy cookie. So, bake more if you need a crisp cookie but keep an eye out lest it brown too much! Each oven is different so bake accordingly. (The baking time also depends upon the thickness of the cookie).
  16. Roll out the scraps with the rest of the dough and repeat until no dough is left.
  17. While one sheet of cookies is baking, prepare another baking sheet and chill until ready to bake.
  18. Once baked, let cookies rest on the baking pan for a couple of minutes to firm up; they will be too soft immediately out of the oven.
  19. Cool cookies completely on a wire cooling rack.
  20. Enjoy delicious, scrumptious and flaky Valentine’s Day Heart-Shaped Cookies this Valentine’s Day or bake up these beauties whenever the cookie monster in you or your family craves for one!
  21. These make fantastic edible gifts to share with your loved ones, be it family or friends on any other special occasion too like Christmas, birthdays, festivals, gatherings etc. !
  22. Store leftover cookies in an airtight container.
  23. Happy Baking/Eating!

Recipe Notes

  • Try not to make the cookies too thin or too thick. Too thin cookies will burn easily and too thick cookies will take a longer time to bake.
  • If you feel the dough has softened too much, place the baking sheet in the fridge for about 10 minutes. Chilling also helps to maintain the shape of the cookie. This step can be done while preheating the oven.
  • If you love chocolate, then substitute the color with a couple of tablespoons of cocoa powder to make a chocolate marbled cookie.
  • The same cookie can be made using any shaped cutter you have or like.