Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins

Shortbread Hearts

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Preparation info

  • 20

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

#42The Silver Palate Cookbook
The Silver Palate Cookbook

By Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins

Published 1982

  • About

Another Silver Palate favorite, good year round, but essential on Valentine’s Day.

Ingredients

  • 1½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup confectioners’ sugar

Method

  1. Cream the butter and confectioners’ sugar together until light.
  2. Sift the flour and salt together and add to the creamed mixture. Add the vanilla and blend thoroughly.
  3. Gather the dough into a ball, wrap in wax paper, and chill for 4 to 6 hours.
  4. Roll out the chilled dough to ⅝-inch thickness. Using a 3-inch-long heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut