Low Fat Valentine Cookies
photo by Cathy Tedder
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 8mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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30 cookies
ingredients
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For cookie
- 73.94 ml butter, softened
- 177.44 ml coconut palm sugar
- 1 large egg
- 4.92 ml almond extract
- 394.39 ml whole wheat pastry flour
- 4.92 ml baking powder
- 1.23 ml salt
- 118.29 ml confectioners' sugar, sifted for work surface
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For glaze
- 236.59 ml confectioners' sugar
- 2.46 ml almond extract
- 14.79 ml milk
- 4.92 ml juice, from defrosted dark sweet cherry
- pink sugar, for decorating if desired
directions
- For cookie: Using a mixer, beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg and almond extract, mixing well.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Gradually add flour mixture into butter and sugar until dough forms. The dough may seem a little crumbly at first; but it will come together.
- Wrap dough in plastic and shape into a disk. Chill for two hours in the refrigerator.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Sprinkle work surface and rolling pin with confectioners sugar. Turn out one half of dough onto it.
- Roll out dough to a 1/4-inch thickness.
- Use heart-shaped cookie cutters dipped in confectioners sugar to make cutouts.
- Gather scraps and re-roll until all the dough is used. While the first batch are baking is a good time to repeat the rolling and cutting process with the second half of the dough.
- Place cookies 1-inch apart on cookie sheet. Bake 8-9 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned. Transfer to wire rack after 1 minute to cool.
- For glaze: In a small bowl, mix together confectioners sugar, almond extract, and milk. Put 2 tablespoons of this white glaze in a small resealable bag and set aside.
- Add cherry juice to the remaining glaze mixture and if you want to make a darker pink add another teaspoon of juice.
- When cookies are fully cooled, frost and decorate as desired.
- Makes about 30 cookies, depending on the size of cookie cutters used. Enjoy!
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Reviews
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Made these cookies a bit small to include in a tasting & cookie sale in our mobile home park, but otherwise followed the recipe! These cookies are very tasty & enjoyable, & I'm keeping the recipe on hand to make again! Thanks for posting it! [Made & reviewed for one of my adoptees in this Spring's round of Pick A Chef]