Happy Valentines to everyone!
Darren and I don't particularly celebrate Valentines day, despite my adoration for all the beautiful sweets and treats that come out for the holiday, the whole day seems a bit of a way of forcing couples to spend money to prove their love for one another.
I would much rather just spend time with my boy, go out for some pasta and watch our favourite TV shows together, and that is exactly what we did!
I would much rather just spend time with my boy, go out for some pasta and watch our favourite TV shows together, and that is exactly what we did!
I did make cookies for the day, I haven't made cookies in ages, and I picked up some beautiful heart cookie cutters whilst in Pt Elliot, that I was dying to use. I turned to CakeJournal for advice on cookies and royal icing. I used the recipe suggested from The joy of Baking, with some minor adjustments.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 Cups of Plain Flour
1/2 Cup of Corn Flour
225gms Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature
1/2 Cup Icing Sugar
1 Teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
1 Egg, Lightly Beaten
Method:
Cream the butter until smooth (about 1 minute). Add the sugar and beat until smooth (about 2 minutes). Beat in the egg and vanilla extract. Gently stir in the sifted flour mixture just until incorporated. Flatten the dough into a disk shape, wrap in cling wrap, and chill the dough for at least an hour.
Preheat oven to 350 F (177 C) with the rack in the middle of the oven. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to 1/4 inch (.5 cm) thick. Cut into the shapes you wish using lightly floured cookie cutter. Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet and place in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. This will firm up the dough so the cookies will maintain their shape when baked. Bake for 8 - 10 minutes, or until cookies are lightly brown. Cool on rack.
I didn't want to use egg whites in the icing mixture, so I just made an icing out of icing sugar, lemon juice and water. The white batch rather stiff, to form the boarders. The pink and blue batch rather runny to fill.
The cookies turned out rather buttery-floury, pretty much how the shortbread that we used to get in those Scottish tins at Christmas time tastes...if not a little softer.
I didn't want to use egg whites in the icing mixture, so I just made an icing out of icing sugar, lemon juice and water. The white batch rather stiff, to form the boarders. The pink and blue batch rather runny to fill.
9 comments:
They look really cute. Josh and I didn't do much for V-day either. We went to our favorite restaurant, and then came home and laughed until we fell asleep. It was a cute V-day! :D
Nice valentine cookies.
Hey! those look great! I have been dying to make some cookies and use royal icing! I haven never done it but it just looks so gosh darn pretty. :) I agree.. i think valentines is pretty lame.. I used to love it when i was a kid though and you would get tons of valentines in grade school! awwww but now its just kind of... bleh.. YOu are the nicest person! Thankyou for all of your kind comments to me :) I love hearing from you! It sounds like you had a nice relaxing valentines day :)
you're cookies are too cute! love the colours!
That looks so fun and pretty... yum yum :)
Adorable cookies, Jessica!
Nice cookies.
Ohhh lovely valentine cookies! I just love them in bright pastels!
Hi Jessy! Just stopping by to say hello, i love your cookies and cupcakes yummy!
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