Bake | Sweetheart Marble Fondant Cookies
Every twelvemonth nosotros describe out the saccharide cookie recipe for Valentines, reinventing the catch or a version of. This year, inspired past times conversation hearts, I came upwards amongst a cursive version amongst the help of a picayune fun cookie cutter/stamp I establish as well as some fondant nosotros marbleized. With a few gilt sprinkles, these cookies are the perfect picayune gift to give out every bit picayune Valentine's this year. Check out the recipe below!
The saccharide cookie recipe nosotros used is from here. But to teach inwards easier than going dorsum as well as forth from post service to post, we'll include it hither also.
Butter's Shaped Cookies
(from Butter Baked Goods, published past times Random House)
makes almost 24 cookies, using a iii 1/2-inch cutter
iii cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature
3/4 loving cup icing sugar
1/2 loving cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons pure vanilla
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets amongst parchment newspaper as well as laid aside.
2. Onto a large slice of parchment paper, sift together the flour as well as baking powder. Set aside.
3. In a stand upwards mixer fitted amongst a paddle attachment, cream the butter as well as sugars on medium to high speed until calorie-free as well as fluffy. Scrape downward the sides of the bowl. Add the vanilla as well as mix to combine. Scrape downward the sides of the bowl again.
4. Turn the mixer to depression as well as add together the dry out ingredients as well as mix until fully combined.
5. Shape the dough into a large disk, almost 1 inch thick, and roll inwards plastic wrap. Chill inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree an hour.
6. Divide the disk inwards two, as well as house one-half the dough on a lightly floured function surface. Use a rolling pivot to gyre out the dough to almost 1/4 inch thick.
7. Use the cookie cutter of your selection to cutting out almost 12 cookies. Carefully transfer to the prepared cookie sheets as well as house almost 1/2 inch apart. You may bring to combine the dough scraps as well as re-roll the dough to cutting out plenty cookies. Avoid doing this every bit good many times, every bit the cookies volition move tough amongst over-handling.
8. Use a rolling pivot to gyre out the 2d disk of dough to almost 1/4 inch intend as well as repeat pace 7.
9. Bake inwards the preheated oven for xv minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned only about the edges.
10. Remove from the oven as well as allow cookies to cool for almost 10 minutes on the sheets, thence transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
For the Fondant + Decorations
1 Cookie cutter/stamp (like this one) or you lot could also job whatsoever type of lettering stamps
1 Package of Fondant icing (like this)
1 or 2 drops of pinkish nutrient colouring
1 minor paintbrush
1 minor bowl of water
Note: Although the fondant is delicious on it's own, you lot tin add together flavouring to the fondant if you lot similar (we beloved almond or lemon).
1. Break off almost one-half of the fondant icing. Place inwards a bowl as well as punch downward a bit. Add 1 or 2 drops of nutrient colouring as well as flexure the fondant inwards as well as over.
2. Flour (using icing sugar) a pastry board as well as rolling pin.
2. Place the fondant onto the board as well as showtime to gyre out the fondant, folding over a few times to create a marbled effect. Roll out to appoximately to 1/8" thick. (Be careful non to mix every bit good much, otherwise the marbling volition move 1 colour).
3. Using the same cookie cutter as well as size every bit you lot used for the cookies, cutting out the fondant icing, as well as thence postage stamp the icing amongst your selection of phrases or words.
4. Using a paintbrush, dip it inwards H2O as well as pigment the dorsum of the cutting fondant catch as well as thence house onto the cookie thence that it volition stick.
5. Dampen the hand of the fondant amongst the paintbrush (not every bit good much) only plenty to teach the sprinkles to stick to the top. Sprinkle amongst a few gilt sprinkles.
(Note: nosotros also stamped some of the cookies without the fondant earlier baking, to add together a chip of variety).
