The boys came home from school and ate the heart
shaped cookies up.
Not exact matches
It so easy to use a
cookie cutter to make a simple heart
shaped — serve as a little chocolaty pick - me -
up or sandwich two brownie hearts with frozen yogurt in the middle.
I've made these banana oat bars into
cookie shapes, but you can bake them pressed into a brownie pan, then cut them
up into actual «bars» too.
Press
cookie dough into bottom of cup in an even layer and press about 1/2 way
up the sides of each cup, forming a cup
shape before you place them in the oven.
● Melt butter in hot milk ● Add to yeast mixture ● Add flour 1 cup at a time until comes away from sides of the bowl ● Knead until soft and smooth ● Let sit (it says 5 - 6 minutes but I left it for 15 minutes ●
Shape dough by forming a 12X8 rectagle and fold / roll and pinch the dough
up on it's self lengthwise ● Butter and sprinkle cornmeal on a
cookie sheet ● Place dough on sheet let double (I left mine for about 2 hours since I went to dinner but the directions say 50 - 60 minutes, but more times means more air which I like) ● Bake in preheated oven at 425F for 30 - 40 minutes.
Pair
up similar sized
cookies (if your
cookies are uneven
shapes or sizes, use a small biscuit or
cookie cutter to make them even).
I rolled out sugar
cookie dough on the thinner side (my recipe puffs
up a bit) and cut out large heart
shaped cookies.
Roll
up loosely, curving each into crescent
shape and place on prepared
cookie sheet.
The first time, after repeated fruitless attempts to roll out the dough, I ended
up out of necessity just scooping it by the teaspoon - ful and rolling it in my hands for a basic drop -
shaped cookie.
Instead of removing each
cookie you cut out and transferring it to a pan, cut the
cookies and remove the excess dough from around them, so you don't have to worry about messing
up the
shape of the
cookies when transferring them.
The dough for these
cookies are really very thick batter, which needs to be refrigerated for 2 hours to firm
up before
shaping into small balls.
You could try chilling in a bowl, then scooping... obviously the scooping and
shaping would warm
up the dough a bit vs baking straight from the fridge, and I'm not sure what effect that might have on the
cookies.
(This will firm
up the dough so the
cookies will maintain their
shape when baked.)
Dress
up your usual presentation of fruit salad by using a
cookie cutter to create flower -
shaped melons and threading the fruit on skewers.
Cut it into a circle with a round cutter
cookie cutter pick
up the fondant circle and gently place the middle of it on top of the Blow pop and let the rest of the circle drape down around it use your fingers to make floating ghost - like waves, or drapes in the fondant allow the fondant to hold that
shape for a couple of minutes to set it, and then place on baking sheet to harden for a few hours once the fondant has hardened slightly.
Note: with coconut flour, your
cookies will not spread or flatten, so if you make them into balls you need to flatten them into the
shape in which you want them to end
up!
You can not use a warped sheet pan - your batter will run and you will end
up with weird
shaped cookies.
Cooling the
cookies allowed them to firm
up their
shape a little bit (they're delicate when you first take them out).
If I had
cookie cutters that produced such cute
shapes, I'd look for excuses all the time to bake some
up.
And because I couldn't roll them into balls, I ended
up with strangely
shaped cookies.
Scoop
up 1 tbsp of mixture and form a
cookie shape in your hands — the mixture will be quite wet still.
For heart
shaped cookies I varied the recipe slightly from the original by adding almonds instead of walnuts and grinding them first in a food processor until they are in small bits so that the nuts will not plug
up the opening of the piping bag.
The prunes became sticky and made cutting the
cookies into
shapes difficult, so I just ended
up rolling the dough into little balls and stamping them with a fork, peanut butter
cookie style.
Once set, cut out the heart
shapes with a
cookie cutter, discard the scraps, wrap them
up and set aside.
I didn't have màple sugar at this baking so used the Swerve brand sugar replacement - The
cookies are soft but kept there cut out
shape perfect and seem to be firming
up as they cool — I did glaze with some organic confectioners sugar so you do get a bit of sweet in that bite however I enjoyed them without any frosting with their mild buttery flavor — sharing this guilt free healthy recipe
Danielle — This isn't a drop
cookie; they don't hold
up well when
shaped into balls.
I end it
up with crumbly dough that I had to
shape somehow in my hand to form a ball and press it into a
cookie, end it
up w 11 small
cookies.
(Frankly, I usually wait to do this until I'm
shaping the
cookies, because my oven heats
up so quickly, but if yours doesn't, heat it now!)
Break the sheet
up into outlined
cookie shapes.
To
shape each
cookie, I like to just use my fingers to pick
up a «glob of dough.»
If the
cookie dough becomes hard during chilling, just break it
up with a fork before pulling off portions and
shaping them.
You mix it together and spread it out and use
cookie cutters to make
shapes then just set them out to dry, roll
up the remaining dough and make more!
Roll
up some deli meat, cut some sliced cheese into
shapes with
cookie cutters (or just into squares) and pop in a pile of crackers.
Jazz
up old standbys by cutting sliced cheese into
shapes with
cookie cutters or spreading peanut butter on a tortilla instead of bread and rolling it
up.
Serve
up sandwiches you cut from train -
shaped cookie cutters at a Thomas the Tank Engine party.
This was partly done to make use of the otherwise idle
cookie cutters and partly just to jazz
up a lunch, especially during holiday times (dreidle -
shaped pb & j, anyone?).
So, to make things easier, I went back to the cereal bar recipe that I make for my family, but changed it
up to make the cute
cookie shapes in Tricia's recipe.
I cut cantaloupe
up with a leaf
shaped cookie cutter (yay for creative progress) and also packed a Vermont Smoke REAL stick (no artificial junk) and Woodstock organic chocolate covered raisins.
German food blogger Ohhhmhhh came
up with the idea of buttering a slice of bread, sprinkling it with hundreds and thousands, using a heart -
shaped cookie cutter to punch another slice, buttering it and plonking it on top.