We get a head start on Valentine's Day each year, since several valentines need to be mailed back east.
This year's Valentine was a tiny care package of brown sugar shortbread cookies and lime meltaways.
The lime meltaways were from Martha Stewart's Cookies. They taste just like the key lime coolers I used to have in Florida when I lived there.
She recommended shaping the dough into two logs to chill. I made mine into two long Toblerone-shaped pyramids, then used a chopstick to create a very deep groove along one side. Slices of this grooved pyramid produced...
...heart-shaped cookies!
....which I overbaked.
I also made some old standby brown sugar shortbread cookies. It's a pretty standard recipe I got from a friend almost 20 years ago, but I'll list it below. Super easy.
My cookie stamp is star-shaped, so I used brand new rubber stamps, with hearts or "love" on them, to press the cookies. I was disappointed to decide that heart-shaped cookies proved too time consuming. If you have any ideas of a quick way to make these into hearts, please comment below.
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Starboy was busy playing, so his help with the cookies was minimal, but he did help me package them in valentine tins (Michael's, $1.50) to send to my best friend The Optimist, and some family.
Brown Sugar Shortbread cookies
Preheat oven to 350.
1 cup butter, softened to room temp (2 sticks)
¾ cup brown sugar
2 ½ cups unsifted flour (if you use presifted flour, you’ll
need more butter)
granulated sugar for rolling
Thoroughly blend butter and brown sugar. Stir in unsifted
flour. Roll into one-inch balls, roll in granulated sugar and place 2” apart on
ungreased sheet. Press each ball with a cookie stamp or the bottom of a glass.
If the balls are too big, the cookies will be dry and flaky
on the edges, and rather heavy and moist in the center.
Bake 10-12 mins at 350, until just starting to brown at the edges. Cool on a wire rack.
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