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Ingredients:
• 2 Eggs
• 1/3 cup Milk
• 1 -1/4 cups Sugar
• 1/2 cup Butter (softened)
• 1/4 cup Shortening
• 3 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 2 tsp Fresh Lemon Juice
• 1 tsp Grated Lemon Rind
• Green and Orange Liquid food Colors
How to make Heart Shaped Cookies:
• Beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium speed till soft. Combine sugar with it and mix well.
• Add eggs and milk and keep beating till blended properly.
• Take a bowl and combine flour baking powder, baking soda and salt properly.
• Add this with butter mixture and beat at low speed till well blended.
• Add lemon rind and juice.
• Fragment the dough into 4 equal parts and wrap each portion in plastic wrap.
• Allow to cool for about 2 to 6 hours.
• Roll a dough part on a lightly floured surface to a 1/4 inch thickness.
• Cut it with a 3 inch heart-shaped cookie cutter and keep on lightly greased baking sheets.
• Repeat the method for other dough parts.
• Now bake them at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 8 to 9 minutes till light brown colour reached on bottoms.
• Allow them to cool on baking sheets for about 2 minutes.
• Transfer to wire racks and let them cool for 20 minutes.
• Put green food color on 1/4 cup Icing and spread it on tops of cookies.
• Put orange food color on reserved 1/4 cup Icing and put that into a zip-top plastic bag. Pierce 1 corner of the bag to make a small hole and pipe dots on cookies.
• Heart Shaped Cookies are ready to serve.
