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 This week's Dessert of the Week
features a wonderful cookie for Valentine's Day. Sweet Hearts is a shortbread cookie
with nuts and chocolate. This cut- out cookie's dough is easily made a day in
advance.
The kids can help with this recipe, they'll enjoy cutting out the heart shapes and
decorating the cookies.What you need:
- 1/2 cup of maraschino cherries, well-drained and chopped
- 1 1/4 cups of all purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons of sugar
- 1/2 cup of unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup of finely chopped almonds
- 1/4 cup of semisweet chocolate pieces ( you can use
chocolate chips here)
- 1/2 teaspoon of shortening
What you do:
- Dry the cherries gently using a paper towel. Place then in a
small bowl and set aside. In a medium bowl stir together flour and sugar. Cut
in butter until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs or small peas. Stir in the
chopped cherries. Knead well on a lightly floured board until all the ingredients
are well combined and the dough is smooth.
- On the lightly floured board, roll out the dough to a 1/2
inch thickness. Using a 1 1/2 inch heart shaped cookie cutter ( dipped in
flour before each cut), cut the dough into hearts. Place each cookie one inch apart
on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in a 325 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until
the cookies are set to the touch. Remove the cookies from the cookie sheet and cool
on a wire rack.
- Evenly spread almonds on waxed paper. In a small
saucepan or pot heat the chocolate and shortening on low heat just until melted, stirring
occasionally. Using a pastry brush, brush the bottoms of the cookies with the
chocolate. Press cookies with chocolate sides down into almonds. Place cookies
with chocolate-almond sides up on a wire rack. Let stand until the chocolate is set.
Makes about 18 cookies
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