When your birthday is in February like mine, it's only natural that some of your favorite birthday treats have a Valentine's Day theme. When I was in elementary school my mom used to bake heart shaped sugar cookie sandwiches with pink buttercream icing and send them to school as a birthday treat for my class. These cookies have become a Valentine's Day tradition, and I love them just as much now as I did as a little girl.
Classic Sugar Cookie
2 1/4 c flour
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c confectioner's sugar
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
12 1/2 T unsalted butter
1 egg
1 T vanilla extract
Place the flour, sugars, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt in a food processor and process just until mixed.
Cut the butter into small pieces and distribute over the flour mixture. Process until the dough resembles coarse meal (about 30 seconds).
Stir the egg and vanilla together in a cup. With the processor running, pour the egg mixture through the feed tube and process until the dough comes together (about 30 seconds).
Remove the dough from the processor, place it on a work surface, and knead it for several seconds.
Roll dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut heart shaped cookies with cookie cutters and place dough on a cookie sheet. Sprinkle sugar over cookies and bake for 8 minutes at 375 degrees.
Let cookies cool on wire rack. Once cookies are cool, make icing.
Raspberry Buttercream Icing
1/4 c shortening
1/4 c butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 c confectioner's sugar
1T milk
1 T seedless raspberry jam
In the bowl of a mixer, cream butter and shortening. Add vanilla.
Add sugar slowly, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape bowl often.
Add milk and beat at high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in raspberry jam.
Spread icing onto cookies to make sandwiches.
Makes approximately 16 sandwich cookies.
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