Vanilla Shortbread Hearts

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• confectioners' sugar, for decoration
• 1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam

Recipe

• 1 in small bowl, combine flour and salt.
• 2 in large bowl, with electric mixer, beat butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• 3 beat in vanilla.
• 4 beat in flour mixture just until blended.
• 5 shape dough into 2 disks; wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 2 hours or overnight.
• 6 preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• 7 line 2 large cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• 8 between 2 sheets of floured wax paper, roll 1 disk 1/8-inch thick.
• 9 with floured 3-inch heart-shape cookie cutter, cut out cookies.
• 10 cut out centers of half cookies with floured 1 1/2 inch heart-shape cookie cutter.
• 11 slide cookies on wax paper to another large cookie sheet and refrigerate about 15 minutes, or until firm.
• 12 remove heart-shape centers from cookies; place cookies on prepared sheets, 1 inch apart.
• 13 bake 13-15 minutes, or until edges are lightly golden.
• 14 cool on parchment paper on wire racks.
• 15 repeat with remaining dough, rerolling scraps.
• 16 sift confectioners' sugar over cookies with cut-out centers.
• 17 spread 1 t jam on each plain cookie; top with remaining cookies to form sandwiches.