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Frosted Heart Cookies

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By Pillsbury Kitchens
Updated Nov 18, 2021
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These Frosted Heart Cookies are gorgeous and endlessly versatile. Bake them for your loved ones as a Valentine's Day treat, or serve them at a bridal shower or wedding reception. Decorating heart-shaped cookies with different colors of frosting could be a fun event all by itself! Whether you make frosted Valentine's cookies or desserts for the bridesmaids, these sweets are sure to be a hit.

Frosted Heart Cookies

  • Prep Time 1 hr 15 min
  • Total 1 hr 15 min
  • Ingredients 11
  • Servings 48
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Ingredients

Cookies

Frosting

  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1/4 cup shortening
  • 2 to 4 tablespoons milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • Food color

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in 1/4 cup flour until well blended. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.) Remove half the dough, and refrigerate remaining dough until needed. In small bowl, mix 1/3 cup powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon flour.
  • Step 
    2
    Sprinkle half of sugar mixture onto work surface. With rolling pin, roll dough 1/8 inch thick. With 2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter dipped in sugar mixture, cut out dough hearts. On ungreased cookie sheets, place hearts 2 inches apart. Repeat with remaining dough and sugar mixture.
  • Step 
    3
    Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
  • Step 
    4
    In medium bowl, beat all frosting ingredients except food color until smooth and spreadable. Beat in desired amount of food color. Pipe or spread on cooled cookies. Let stand until frosting is dry. Store cookies in single layer in covered container.

Nutrition

90 Calories
4g Total Fat
0g Protein
12g Total Carbohydrate
9g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
90
Calories from Fat
35
Total Fat
4g
6%
Saturated Fat
1 1/2g
7%
Trans Fat
1/2g
Cholesterol
5mg
2%
Sodium
40mg
2%
Potassium
0mg
0%
Total Carbohydrate
12g
4%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
9g
Protein
0g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
0%
0%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
0%
0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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