{"id":2960,"date":"2011-02-04T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2011-02-04T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:34:36","slug":"be-my-valentine-cookie-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"Be My Valentine: Cookie Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2990\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1030943c.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2990 \" title=\"Window Pane Cookies\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1030943c.jpg?resize=200%2C182\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Window Pane Heart Cookies made with love by the girls and their friends!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We made these fun window pane Valentine Cookie Surprises this week.\u00a0 The girls had a blast cutting out the cookie shapes and adding the hard candy to make window panes!\u00a0 They taste pretty yummy too with the variety of flavors and textures.\u00a0 The cookie dough is your basic sugar cookie mix.\u00a0 We added the hard candies in the middle to make the cookies extra special.\u00a0 It was a wonderful baking adventure with our girls and their friends who were spending time over at our house.\u00a0 After having 5 young girls cooking in the kitchen it was a mess but they were so proud of their creations and goodies that it was worth the extra clean up time!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sugar Cookies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/3 cup Butter or Margarine<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup Shortening<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup Sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon Baking Powder<\/li>\n<li>1 Egg<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon Vanilla<\/li>\n<li>2 cups All Purpose Flour<\/li>\n<li>20 to 40 Hard Candies (We used a variety of Lifesavers, Root Beer Float Hard Candies &amp; Candy Canes*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Beat butter and shortening on medium to high speed for 30  seconds.\u00a0 Add sugar, baking powder, and a dash of salt.\u00a0 Beat till  combined, scraping the bowl so everything is well blended.\u00a0 Beat in egg  and vanilla.\u00a0 Gradually add the flour into the mixture.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Cover and chill dough for 1 to 3 hours to make it easier to handle when making cookies or cutouts.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Lay down wax paper and lightly flour.\u00a0 Roll the dough to 1\/8 inch  thickness.\u00a0 Use a variety of cookie cutters to make the shapes you  want.\u00a0 Place on lightly greased cookie sheet.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Cut out a heart shape in the middle of the cookies.\u00a0 Fill the hole with a crushed hard candy.\u00a0 The candy will melt during baking creating the glass window pane hearts in the middle of the cookies. *We tried using up extra candy canes but they didn&#8217;t melt well (they tasted good) but I would stick to the one color hard candies like life savers!<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 Bake at 375\u00b0 for 7 to 9 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are firm and light brown.\u00a0 Cool until the middle window are set then transfer to a platter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2992\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1030948c.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2992\" title=\"Window Pane Heart Surprise Valentine Cookie\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1030948c.jpg?resize=200%2C166\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surprise Valentine&#39;s Cookie - this one had three different flavors!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made these fun window pane Valentine Cookie Surprises this week.\u00a0 The girls had a blast cutting out the cookie shapes and adding the hard candy to make window panes!\u00a0 They taste pretty yummy too with the variety of flavors and textures.\u00a0 The cookie dough is your basic sugar cookie mix.\u00a0 We added the hard candies in the middle to make the cookies extra special.\u00a0 It was a wonderful baking adventure with our girls and their friends who were spending time over at our house.\u00a0 After having 5 young girls cooking in the kitchen it was a mess but they were so proud of their creations and goodies that it was worth the extra clean up time! Sugar Cookies 1\/3 cup Butter or Margarine 1\/3 cup Shortening 3\/4 cup Sugar 1 teaspoon Baking Powder 1 Egg 1 teaspoon Vanilla 2 cups All Purpose Flour 20 to 40 Hard Candies (We used a variety of Lifesavers, Root Beer Float Hard Candies &amp; Candy Canes*) 1.\u00a0 Beat butter and shortening on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.\u00a0 Add sugar, baking powder, and a dash of salt.\u00a0 Beat till combined, scraping the bowl so everything is well blended.\u00a0 Beat in egg and vanilla.\u00a0 Gradually add the flour into the mixture. 2.\u00a0 Cover and chill dough for 1 to 3 hours to make it easier to handle when making cookies or cutouts. 3.\u00a0 Lay down wax paper and lightly flour.\u00a0 Roll the dough to 1\/8 inch thickness.\u00a0 Use a variety of cookie cutters to make the shapes you want.\u00a0 Place on lightly greased cookie sheet. 4.\u00a0 Cut out a heart shape in the middle of the cookies.\u00a0 Fill the hole with a crushed hard candy.\u00a0 The candy will melt during baking creating the glass window pane hearts in the middle of the cookies. *We tried using up extra candy canes but they didn&#8217;t melt well (they tasted good) but I would stick to the one color hard candies like life savers! 5.\u00a0 Bake at 375\u00b0 for 7 to 9 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are firm and light brown.\u00a0 Cool until the middle window are set then transfer to a platter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64,65,15,16,82,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-family","category-holiday","category-kids","category-recipe","category-twins"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnfwQ-LK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}