Take a bowl. Add 1/4 cup of butter. Butter should be in room temperature.
Whisk the butter for 3 mins or till it turns creamy
Add one cup of powdered sugar
Mix it well
Add one whole egg to the butter sugar mixture.
Whisk it well till all the ingredients are mixed well
Take a sieve, add 1.5 cups of all purpose flour
Add 1/2 TSP baking soda
Sieve both the ingredients
Mix all the ingredients well. No lumps to be formed.
Add 1 TSP vanilla essence
Add 1 TSP red food color or color of your choice
Mix all the ingredients well to form a dough
Dough consistency
Place the dough in a aluminium foil or a plastic wrapper
Wrap it and refrigerate atleast for an hour
After a hour take the cookie dough
Dust the work area with flour. So that dough does not stick to the work area.
Roll the dough to half a inch thick
Take a heart shaped cookie preferably. Cut the dough to form the heart shape.
Heart shape cut from the rolled dough
Bake the cookie at 180 degree per heated oven for 15 mins
Cool and serve. Simple valentine cookie is ready :)
