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Heart-shaped Linzer Cookies for Valentine's Day
 These
cookies should pave the way straight to your Valentine's heart.
Recipe courtesy of HomeBasics.ca
Ingredients:
1 cup Imperial Hard Margarine, room
temperature (250 mL)
3/4 cup granulated sugar (175 mL)
1 egg (1)
1 tsp vanilla (5 mL)
2 cups all-purpose flour (500 mL)
1/2 tsp baking powder (2 mL)
1/2 tsp salt (2 mL)
3/4 cup ground hazelnuts (175 mL)
2/3 cup peach or raspberry jam (150 mL)
2 tbsp icing sugar (30 mL)
In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar until light and
fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. In another large bowl, whisk
together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in hazelnuts. Mix dry
ingredients into creamed margarine. Roll dough between two sheets of
parchment paper to 1/8 to 1/4-inch thickness. Refrigerate rolled
dough in parchment paper for at least 2 hours or until firm enough
to work with.
Preheat oven to 350° F (180° C). Cut dough into
2-inch heart-shaped cookies. Use a 1-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter
to cut a hole in the centre of half the rounds. Place the 2-inch
whole cookies on one parchment lined cookie sheet, and the cookies
with cut-out centres on a separate parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake for 17-22 minutes or until golden. Cookies with
their centres cut out will cook faster. Transfer cookies to cookie
racks to cool. When cool, place 3/4 tsp jam in centre of each whole
cookie, then place one cut-out round over each jam covered cookie
and press gently to secure. Makes 20 cookies.
Dozens more cake, cookie and sweet temptations are
available online at homebasics.ca.
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