Heart Cookies Decorated With Royal Icing
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Recipe Summary Heart Cookies Decorated With Royal Icing
Iced heart-shaped cookies make a lovely gift for your Valentine. This recipe uses the flood technique with royal icing to achieve a gorgeous and smooth result that sets firmly.
Ingredients | Valentine's Day Cookie Recipes Food Network1 cup unsalted butter, softened2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened1 ¼ cups white sugar1 tablespoon lemon zest2 eggs2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted2 egg whites3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar1 teaspoon lemon juice, or as needed (Optional)red food coloringDirectionsCream 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Add white sugar and lemon zest and mix well. Mix in eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition. Mix in 1/2 of the flour until combined. Mix in remaining flour until dough comes together.Shape dough with your hands into a thick rectangle. Press flat and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 2 hours.Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.Dust a work surface with flour and roll out dough into a thin circle. Cut out heart shapes and arrange cut-out cookies on the prepared baking sheets.Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove hearts from baking sheets carefully and transfer to wire racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.Beat egg whites in a bowl until frothy. Beat in confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until stiff peaks form. Add lemon juice to thin out the mixture. Add more lemon juice for runnier icing. Divide icing into small bowls and color with red food coloring in different shades of red or pink, keeping a portion of the icing white. Cover with a damp kitchen towel at all times so it won't dry out.Decorate as you like using different techniques. For the flood technique, use runny royal icing in a piping bag with a small round #2 tip and pipe a line around the edge of the cookies. Fill in the center, evenly distributing the icing with a scriber tool.For hearts, add dots of a different color onto the wet icing and drag the scriber tool downwards through the dots. For lips, add an oval shape onto the wet icing and shape the oval into lips with the scriber tool.For feathers or patterns, pipe a line around the edge, then add stripes in different colors. Drag the scriber tool down through the stripes. For a marbled effect, pipe lines of different colors across a base layer, then drag the scriber tool up and down through the lines. Allow the icing to set completely.Baking time is often shorter after the first batch of cookies.Info | Valentine's Day Cookie Recipes Food Networkprep:
1 hr
cook:
10 mins
additional:
2 hrs 15 mins
total:
3 hrs 25 mins
Servings:
24
Yield:
24 cookies
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