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    These crispy cornmeal cookies make the prettiest treat for Valentine's Day. A heart-shaped cookie cutter is pressed into each round just to create an impression. Once baked, the hearts are spread with pink glaze.
    Everyday Food, January/February 2011
    • Yield Makes 40
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    Ingredients

    • 2 cups all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)
    • 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
    • 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
    • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
    • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
    • 1 large egg
    • 1 1/4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
    • 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
    • 1 to 2 drops red or pink food coloring

    Directions

    1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, and salt. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and 1/2 cup granulated sugar on medium-high until creamy, 3 minutes. Add egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla and beat until combined. With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture and beat to combine.
    2. Place 1/4 cup granulated sugar in a small bowl; roll dough into 1-inch balls and coat with sugar. Transfer to two parchment-lined baking sheets. With the bottom of a glass, flatten balls to 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Press a 1-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter into each (do not cut through). Bake until cookies are golden at edges, 10 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Let cookies cool on wire racks.
    3. In a small bowl, whisk together confectioners' sugar, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 3/4 teaspoons cold water. Whisk in food coloring. With a small spoon, spread glaze inside heart. Let set 15 minutes.

    Recipe Reviews

    • MizGillespie
      12 Feb, 2012

      This is a very tasty cookie. The only thing I would add to the instructions would be to flour the bottom of the glass that you use to press them into a circle; without it, each one would have to be peeled off and wouldnt have that round shape. These were really pretty, and so easy.

    • chaffee050
      23 Apr, 2011

      Great tasting and easy to make and follow directions with 4 year old.

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