Conversation Hearts Sugar Cookies Recipes

VALENTINE'S DAY HEART SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• In a large bowl using a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium-high speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Add the granulated sugar and beat on medium-high speed until creamed, about 2 minutes. Add the egg, vanilla, and almond extract (if using) and beat on high speed until combined, about 1 minute. Scrape down the sides and up the bottom of the bowl and beat again as needed to combine.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix on low until combined. If the dough seems too soft, you can add 1 Tablespoon more flour so it's a better consistency for rolling.
• Divide the dough into 2 equal parts. Roll each portion out onto a piece of parchment paper or a lightly floured silicone baking mat (I prefer the nonstick silicone mat) to about 1/4″ thickness. The rolled-out dough can be any shape, as long as it is evenly ¼-inch thick.
• Stack the pieces, with parchment paper between the two, onto a baking sheet and refrigerate for at least 1-2 hours and up to 2 days. If chilling for more than a couple hours, cover the top dough piece with a single piece of parchment paper.
• Once chilled, preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Remove one of the dough pieces from the refrigerator and using a heart cookie cutter, cut into heart shapes. Re-roll the remaining dough and continue cutting until all is used. Repeat with 2nd dough piece.
• Bake for 10-11 minutes, until lightly browned around the edges. Make sure you rotate the baking sheet halfway through bake time. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.
• In a large bowl using a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat all of the icing ingredients together on high speed for 5 minutes. When lifting the whisk up off the icing, the icing should drizzle down and smooth out within 10-12 seconds. If it's too thick, add a little more water. (On particularly dry days, I use up to 12-14 Tablespoons water total.) If it's too thin, add a little more sifted confectioners' sugar. Separate icing into 6 different bowls. Stir in 1 tiny drop of the following colors into each bowl, 1 color per bowl: pink, violet, green, yellow, and orange. The 6th bowl is for the writing. Use 2-3 drops of red.
• Add icing to piping bag fitted with round icing tip #5. Decorate cookies with colored icing. Use round icing tip #1 for writing. Do not cover cookies as icing sets. Icing will set within 2-3 hours.
• Decorated or plain cookies stay fresh covered at room temperature for 5 days or in the refrigerator for up to 10 days.

VALENTINE CONVERSATION HEART COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line two cookie sheets with Reynolds® Parchment Paper.
• Beat butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, and salt. Beat until combined, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. Beat in the egg, milk, and vanilla until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Using a wooden spoon, stir in any remaining flour. Divide dough in half. If necessary, cover and chill dough about 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
• Roll half the dough at a time between two sheets of parchment paper to 1/8- to 1/4-inch thickness. Using a 2 1/2-inch heart-shape cookie cutter, cut out cookie shapes, re rolling dough as needed until all the dough is cut out. Place shapes 1 inch apart on prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until edges are firm and bottoms are very light brown. Transfer the parchment paper with baked cookies to wire racks and let cool. Once cooled, slide the parchment paper onto a work surface.
• Tint frosting as desired with food coloring. Frost cookies with one color and use another color to pipe a message over the frosted cookies.

CONVERSATION HEART COOKIES

Steps:

• 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.

CONVERSATION HEARTS SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. MIX SOFTEND BUTTER N SHORTENN WITH SUGAR UNTIL SMOOTH. BEAT IN EGGS N VANILLA N ALMOND EXTRACTS.
• 2. ADD FLOUR, BAKN POWDER N SALT...MIX UNTIL COMBINED....COVER N REFRIGERATE FOR ATLEAST FEW HOURS TO OVERNITE.
• 3. PLACE PARCHMENT PAPER ON TWO COOKIE SHEETS N SET ASIDE . PREHEAT OVEN TO 400
• 4. ON A CLEAN SURFACE SPRINKLE CONFECTIONERS SUGAR N ON FREQUENTLY ON ROLLN PIN . ROLL OUT HALF OF THE DOUGH TO 1/4-1/2 " THICKNESS N PUT OTHER HALF BAK IN REFRIGERATOR...USE A HEART SHAPED COOKIE CUTTER N START CUTTN THEN PLACING HEARTS ON PARCHMENT LINED COOKIE SHEETS.
• 5. BAKE COOKIES FOR 12 MINUTES OR UNTIL COOKIES EDGE STRTS TO TURN A LITE BROWN. REMOVE COOKIES N PLACE ON A COOLING RACK. NOW FINISH WITH REMAINN DOUGH IN FRIDGE...ONCE COOLD U CAN PUT ON PLATE UNTIL U R READY TO DECORATE ;)
• 6. NOW WE R READY TO DECORATE ...IN 3 OR 4 SEPERATE SMALL BOWLS PUT ABOUT 2 CUPS OF CONFECTIONERS SUGAR INTO EACH ...PUT 3 DROPS OF DIFFERENT COLORD FOOD COLORING INTO EACH BOWL ALONG WITH 1/2 TSP OF ALMOND EXTRACT AND 2 TSP OF MILK INTO EACH...MIX THOROUGHLY IF SPREADING CONSISTENCY IS NOT REACHD ADD EITHER MORE MILK OR CONFECTIONS SUGAR.
• 7. WITH EITHER A SMALL OFFSET SPATULA OR BAK OF A TSP SHMEAR COOKIE GLAZE ONTO COOKIE N SET ASIDE...UNTIL ALL COOKIES R GLAZED WITH A COLOR.
• 8. TAKE A DARK COLORD GLAZE (make it a lil darker than the glaze on cookies...about half cup ) SPOON THIS INTO THE CORNER OF PLASTIC SANDWICH BAG N TWIST BAG TO PUSH GLAZE TO CORNER N WITH SCISSORS SNIP THE CORNER EVER SO SLIGHTLY....THIS WILL B UR WRITING GLAZE ;). START WRITING SLOWLY ON EACH COOKIE ...ANY CUTE SAYN ;)
• 9. LAST STEP. COOKIES MUST AIR DRY FOR ABOUT 12 HOURS OR LONGER B4. U CAN STACK FOR PACKN...GLAZE WILL DRY HARD.....OR U CAN START EATN ANYTIME :)

MINI CONVERSATION-HEART COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, flour and egg until soft dough forms.
• Roll dough 1/4 inch thick on floured surface. Cut out approximately 100 cookies with 1-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, rerolling dough as necessary. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until edges are set. Cool on cookie sheet 1 minute. Remove to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, divide frosting among 6 small bowls, about 1/3 cup each. Using food colors, tint frosting in each bowl a different color, leaving 1 bowl white.
• Working with 1 color at a time, microwavable small bowl of frosting uncovered on High 8 to 10 seconds or until thin enough to pour.
• Using 2 forks, dip and roll each cookie in melted frosting to cover completely, letting excess drip off. Place on cooling rack placed over waxed paper to catch drips. Repeat with remaining cookies and colored frosting. Let stand at least 3 hours at room temperature until frosting is set. Store loosely covered at room temperture.