Shortbread Cookies Valentines Day Playful Cooking

I don’t bake cookies that often but every time I bake a batch, especially shortbread cookies, I get into this therapeutic mode. In the last two days I baked about 350 of these Heart Shortbread Cookies as part of my gig. It was my first time baking this big batch of cookies and I loved the whole process so much that I baked another small batch for my little one.

Three basic Ingredients is what you need for shortbread cookies

ButterSugarFlour

Shortbread cookies are fun to bake. It’s so easy to put together that even if you don’t bake cookies that often you can easily pull this one effortlessly. Shortbread cookies are a great blank canvas to play with in terms of flavor and decoration.

Melted chocolate drizzled randomlyMelted chocolate partially dippedDipped in colorful powdered sugar icing

To make it festive and fun, add some sprinkle on top!

It makes 34 mini heart shortbread cookies. EGGLESS and NUT FREE!

FEW KEY POINTS:

Make sure to soften the butter before you start making the dough. A tip that works to soften butter quickly is to microwave the butter stick with the wrapper on it for just 10 to 15 seconds in intervals. Don’t over knead the dough! If you are using a stand mixer, make sure to run it just until the dough comes together. Then gently knead it to form a soft dough. Once the cookies are baked, let it cool down on a wire rack instead of leaving it on the hot cookie sheet. Leaving it on the cookie sheet with continue baking the cookies, making it dry.Dip or drizzle with chocolate or dip on icing sugar only after the cookies are cooled down to room temperature.

How to store shortbread cookies?

Homemade shortbread cookies can be store in room temperature in an airtight jar for about two weeks. If you need to store for longer than definitely store in the refrigerator. Whether you dip it in chocolate or style it neatly with sugar icing or decide to leave it blank, short bread cookies are fun to bake and treat on with a glass of cold milk or tea in my case.

We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day in a big way. We absolutely dislike dinning out on a crowded restaurant on this day. Pre baby phase, it used to be just being cozy in the couch with some good food and wine. Things didn’t change much post baby phase until couple years back when It became more about getting cards and goodies for our little’s one classmate.

This year his class teacher asked to do a family project with a shoe box or something bigger to create something to collect the Valentines goodies. Arvind got more excited about the project than our little fella and together they made this cute little robot, which Avyan named - A1T0