Hearty Cookies

Submitted by Charishma_Ramchandani

"These are very nice to have around on Valentine's day. This is Anju's recipe from the Young Times magazine. I hope you like it!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup margarine
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup red decorative candies, ground

directions

1. Preheat your oven to 180C.
2. Separate the egg yolks from the whites.
3. Beat the whites, one at a time, in a bowl until light and fluffy.
4. Cream in sugar, the egg yolks and margarine.
5. Slowly, fold in the flour, until the dough is stiff.
6. Roll out the dough using a rolling pin.
7. The dough should be 1 cm in thickness.
8. Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out hearts from the dough.
9. Using a smaller heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out smaller hearts from the center of the bigger hearts.
10. Reuse the smaller hearts as dough.
11. Grease a baking pan with a little margarine.
12. Lay out the heart cut outs.
13. In the center of each big heart cutout, put a tsp.
14. of the ground candy, filling it into the smaller heart.
15. Bake for 20 minutes at 180C.
16. Cool the cookies for 1 hour so that the cookies become hard.
17. Serve with a smile!
18. Enjoy!