Watkins Valentine Sandwich Cookies

Posted on February 11, 2009 
Filed Under Watkins Recipes, Watkins Vanilla

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 Win over the special valentine in your life with Watkins Valentine Sandwich Cookies.  Our easy-to-follow instructions are provided below:

 Ingredients:

1 cup butter
1 egg 
1 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon Watkins double-strength clear vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon Watkins almond extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar 

Cooking Instructions:

  1. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the cup of butter with 1 1/2 cups of confectioners’ sugar.   Next, beat in the egg along with Watkins double-strenght vanilla and Watkins almond extract. Mix this well.
  2. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar.  Blend this into the butter mixture and divide the resultig dough into thirds, then shape into balls.
  3. Working with 1/3 of dough at a time, roll out the dough into your desired thickness on a lightly floured surface. For each heart sandwich cookie, cut out two 3-inch hearts. Cut out the center of ONE of the 3-inch hearts with a 1 1/2-inch cutter.
  4. Place each piece separately on an ungreased cookie sheet, 1 to 2 inches apart.  Next, bake the cookies in a preheated, 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven until lightly browned (7-8 minutes for 1/4 inch thick cookies).
  5. Cool completely on a wire rack. Frost the bottom cookie with Pink Valentine Frosting and place an open centered cookie on top to form the sandwich. Also frost the small 1 1/2 inch hearts and serve as separate cookies.
  6. The recipe makes seventeen 3″ valentine cookies and seventeen smaller 1 1/2″ valentine shaped cookies.  The pink frosting mix recipe follows below:

Pink Frosting Recipe:

Ingredients

1 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon Watktins double-strength clear vanilla extract
1 tablespoon water
2 drops red food coloring 

Directions

  1. Blend sugar, salt and flavoring.  Add just enough water to make the frosting easy to spread. Add 2 drops red food coloring and mix well.
  2. Frost the cookies with this mixture

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