Food Network: Valentine's Cookies

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Valentine's Cookies
Recipe courtesy Gale Gand

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Approximately 3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Icing, recipe follows
Silver balls
Gold balls
Icing:

2 tablespoons egg whites*
2 cups powdered sugar
Red food coloring

Directions
Cream the butter. Add the sugar and mix well. Add the
egg, milk and vanilla and combine. Sift together 1 cup of the flour with the
baking powder and mix it into the batter. Add some or all of the additional flour
depending on how much the dough can handle. Form into a disk, cover in plastic and
chill in the refrigerator at least 2 hours. Roll out on a lightly floured surface
about 1/4-inch thick. Cut out hearts with various sized cookie cutters and place
on a greased sheet pan. Bake at 375 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes until very light
golden brown. Let cool on the pan.
Icing: Whisk together the egg whites and powdered sugar to form a slightly loose

icing. It should flow a little bit but not too much. Transfer a small amount to a
separate bowl and add a tiny amount of red food coloring to make pink icing. Pipe
a rim of pink icing around the edge of the cookie and then fill in the center with
white icing, or just pipe decorative designs on the surface. Embellish with silver
or gold balls. Let dry and package up in cello bags tied with a ribbon.

Directions
*RAW EGG WARNING
Food Network Kitchens suggest caution in consuming raw and lightly-cooked eggs due
to the slight risk of Salmonella or other food-borne illness. To reduce this risk,
we recommend you use only fresh, properly-refrigerated, clean, grade A or AA eggs
with intact shells, and avoid contact between the yolks or whites and the shell.