Heart Cookie Sandwiches with Cream Cheese Buttercream
By Isabella Quinn
Prep
30 min
Cook
8 min
Total
40 min
Servings
30
These heart-shaped cookie sandwiches are suitable for Mother's Day and other gifts. These soft, buttery cookies are filled with cream cheese frosting to create a tasty and visually appealing treat. Decorating and filling ideas for making these cookies include food coloring and other fillings. Making these cookies can be a fun activity. Consider giving these cookies as gifts to others.
Ingredients
- •110 g unsalted butter (soft, at room temperature)
- •150 g granulated sugar
- •1 egg
- •1 tsp vanilla extract
- •⅛ tsp pink or red liquid food colouring
- •1 tsp salt
- •1 ½ tsp baking powder
- •250 g all-purpose flour (+ more to dust the surface for rolling)
- •250 g unsalted butter (at room temperature)
- •210 g cream cheese (at room temperature)
- •150 g icing sugar
- •⅛ tsp pink or red food colouring
Instructions
- 1
Use a whisk to beat the butter, sugar and salt together until you have a creamy consistency.
- 2
Add the egg and mix it in until fully incorporated.
- 3
Add the vanilla and food colouring and mix once again.
- 4
Add the flour and baking powder and mix using a spatula.
- 5
Once the spatula isn’t helping anymore, knead slightly with your hands.
- 6
Cover the dough and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- 7
Roll out the dough on a floured surface until it's 2-3mm thick.
- 8
Use cookie cutters to cut the dough into hearts or whatever shape you prefer.
- 9
Use a thin metal spatula to lift the cookies from the surface.
- 10
Place the cookies on a non-stick baking tray.
- 11
Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 180°C / 350°F for 5-8 minutes.
- 12
Let them cool down completely before filling or the frosting will melt.
- 13
Beat the butter for 5 minutes from the moment it goes soft.
- 14
Add the cream cheese and repeat the process.
- 15
Add the sugar and mix until everything is incorporated.
- 16
Add food colouring little by little until you get the desired colour.
- 17
Fill a pastry bag fitted with a nozzle with the buttercream.
- 18
Place buttercream on one cookie and cover it with another cookie.
- 19
Place the cookies in the fridge for at least 30 minutes so that the buttercream solidifies.
- 20
Keep them in the fridge.
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