Red heart vanilla cookies. Red Heart Valentine's Day Cookie Recipe Ingredients Needed. Butter Sugar Large eggs All-purpose flour Salt Baking soda Cream of tartar Vanilla extract. Valentine's Sprinkles and icing for decorating the cookies. I used red icing to fill in the cookies. I also thought about using strawberry jam but did not have any in the house.

Perfect for your Valentine's Day celebrations. Boil chopped beetroot with little water until it is cooked. Grind to a smooth paste and extract the thick pulp. You can cook Red heart vanilla cookies using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red heart vanilla cookies

It's 1/4 cup of butter.
You need 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.
It's 3/4 cup of Maida.
You need 1/4 tsp of vanilla essence.
You need 2 pinches of baking powder.
Prepare 1 tsp of red food color.
Prepare 2 tsp of milk.

Cream Butter and sugar until light and fluffy; Add in Vanilla essence and Beetroot pulp and beat again until combined. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. In another large bowl using a hand mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy and pale in color. For taping, Ina placed the cut out cookie dough hearts on parchment paper before baking.

Red heart vanilla cookies step by step

Firstly, in a mixing bowl add butter and sugar, mix well. Now add vanilla essence and mix. Now gradually add maida and mix using spatula. Now add baking powder, mix well. The texture will be Crumbled..
Take out the mixture from the bowl to wide surface and using palm mix well. Now divide the mixture in to two part (2:1 ratio). Add food colour to the larger quantity of mixture. Add 1 tsp milk and mix well. Keep aside. Now take the smaller quantity of mixture, add 1 tsp milk to knead a smooth dough, keep aside..
Now take the red dough on a butter paper or cling wrap. Cover with butter paper or cling wrap to roll it easily using roller pin, else using pal you can press it to spread evenly with 1/2 thickness. Now using heart shaped cookie cutter and make 6-7 small red hearts. Take one red heart the apply little water on it, then add another heart. This way make a log of 6-7 red hearts. Keep in freezer for 30 mins..
After 30 minutes, take out the red heart log, now evenly keep the white dough by covering the red heart log. Roll it a bit to give smooth finish to the outer side. Keep in freezer for 30 mins..
After 30 mins, take out the cookie roll from freezer. Using knife cut into 1/2 cm slices. Place the cookies on baking tray..
Now take a deep bottomed kadai. Add salt, and the keep a steal stand (of 1 inch height) on the salt. Cover the kadai and keep on high flame for 5-8 mins..
Now remove the lid from the kadai, place the baking tray. Cover the kadai and keep on medium flame for 15-20 mins. Check every 5 mins to ensure the cookies are not burnt out. Once the edges change colour. Switch off the flame. Take out the baking tray, keep the cookies aside to completely cool down. Keep in airtight container for future consumption..

Cut with a medium heart shaped cookie cutter. Be sure to combine the strips of cookie dough that are left and re-roll. Place cookies on a parchment lined cookie sheet and place in the refrigerator while you roll out the remaining dough. Grinch Cookies happen to be the best snack for watching The Grinch or pretty much any holiday movie. The bright green color is just for kicks to make them Grinch-like.