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Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 70 cookies
Ingredients
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2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more for surface
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Royal Icing for Gingerbread House
Gel-paste food coloring (such as leaf green, lemon yellow, peach, red, rose, and violet)
Cook's Notes
We used a Cosco 2000 Plus Custom Stamp Kit (No. 614107), $24.99, from Staples.
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Conversation Heart Cookies
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 70 cookies
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Conversation Heart Cookies
Conversation Heart Cookies
Conversation Heart Cookies
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 70 cookies
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 70 cookies
Yield: Makes 70 cookies
Makes 70 cookies
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more for surface
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Royal Icing for Gingerbread House
- Gel-paste food coloring (such as leaf green, lemon yellow, peach, red, rose, and violet)
Directions
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Cream butter and sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy. With mixer running, add egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture gradually, beating until just incorporated. Divide dough in half; flatten each half into a disk, and wrap each in plastic. Refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour (or overnight).
Preheat oven to 325 degrees with racks in top third and lower third. Let 1 disk of dough stand at room temperature just until soft enough to roll, about 10 minutes. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough to just under 1/4-inch thickness, adding more flour as needed to keep dough from sticking. Cut out cookies with a 2-inch heart cutter, and place them 2 inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Roll out scraps once, and repeat. Repeat with remaining disk of dough. Freeze cookies until very firm, about 15 minutes.
Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through and switching from top to bottom, until edges turn golden brown, 14 to 16 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks. Cookies will keep, covered, for up to 1 week.
Divide royal icing into 1/2-cup portions in small bowls. Tint each with a different gel-paste food coloring, starting with just a drop, mixing well, and adding more, drop by drop, to reach desired shade. Transfer 1 bowl of icing to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/8-inch round plain tip. Pipe the outline around edge of each cookie, then fill in with frosting. Poke air bubbles with a toothpick. Transfer decorated cookies to a parchment-lined baking sheet, and let stand uncovered overnight until dry.
Arrange stamp letters to create desired phrases. (We stamped LUV U, UR A QT, BFF, LYLAS, B MINE, and 2GTBT.) Fold a paper towel into quarters. Squeeze a small amount of red gel-paste food coloring onto a paper towel, and press stamp in coloring. (You may need to blot stamp a few times on a clean paper towel if coloring is too thick.) Lightly press stamp on top of icing in center of each cookie. Let stand until dry, about 30 minutes. Stamped cookies will keep, covered, for up to 3 days.
Cook's Notes
We used a Cosco 2000 Plus Custom Stamp Kit (No. 614107), $24.99, from Staples.
Cook’s Notes
We used a Cosco 2000 Plus Custom Stamp Kit (No. 614107), $24.99, from Staples.
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165 Ratings
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4 star values:
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Add Rating & Review
165 Ratings
5 star values:
41
4 star values:
45
3 star values:
54
2 star values:
17
1 star values:
8
165 Ratings
5 star values:
41
4 star values:
45
3 star values:
54
2 star values:
17
1 star values:
8
165 Ratings
5 star values:
41
4 star values:
45
3 star values:
54
2 star values:
17
1 star values:
8
- 5 star values:
- 41
- 4 star values:
- 45
- 3 star values:
- 54
- 2 star values:
- 17
- 1 star values:
- 8
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
01/21/2015
The bags for these cookies are very cute. Any ideas on where to get them?
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
02/10/2013
We spent the afternoon making these wonderful cookies. We do plan to let them dry overnight and then stamp our message of love on them. I bought very expensive, but very good cookies at Williams-Sonoma and duplicated the size and idea. They are so cute. We did cut out a few larger cookies to decorate and put in the box with the smaller ones.
Thanks for the recipe and idea Martha.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
02/10/2012
I have a question - how important is the rolling onto a disc thing? It can't just freeze for a bit then thaw out? or, does the thawing/softening have to happen at an equal rate for all the dough?
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
02/06/2012
TMT =Too much trouble. I make my cookies and apply lettering with a tip and a bag .
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
01/21/2015
The bags for these cookies are very cute. Any ideas on where to get them?
Rating: Unrated
Rating: Unrated
02/10/2013
We spent the afternoon making these wonderful cookies. We do plan to let them dry overnight and then stamp our message of love on them. I bought very expensive, but very good cookies at Williams-Sonoma and duplicated the size and idea. They are so cute. We did cut out a few larger cookies to decorate and put in the box with the smaller ones.
Thanks for the recipe and idea Martha.
Rating: Unrated
02/10/2012
I have a question - how important is the rolling onto a disc thing? It can't just freeze for a bit then thaw out? or, does the thawing/softening have to happen at an equal rate for all the dough?
Rating: Unrated
02/06/2012
TMT =Too much trouble. I make my cookies and apply lettering with a tip and a bag .
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