Peeking Heart Shortbread Cookies Recipe

The below recipe incorporates the Valentine’s day symbol of the heart, as well as the color of red.  It is an elegant (and delicious!) treat. Visit our Valentine’s Day Symbols page to learn more about the symbolism and meaning of hearts, as well as the color of red.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup raspberry preserves

Directions:

1. Cream together butter and powdered sugar until fluffy. Mix in almond extract.

2. Add flour and salt, and blend.

3. Cover and chill for about 1 hour.

4. Roll out dough. It helps to roll between two pieces of wax paper (image 1)

5. Cut into heart shapes. Cut a smaller heart out of the middle of every other one (image 2)

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6. Bake for about 8 minutes at 400 degrees and allow to cool.

7. When cool, sprinkle powdered sugar on hearts that have a hole in the the middle (image 2).

8. Spread raspberry preserves on solid heart and top with sugar sprinked heart (image 3).

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