Be My Valentine Cookie

Name: Be My Valentine Cookie
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons almond extract; 59 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 2 Tbsps maraschino cherry juice; 118 milliliters Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting (from 16 oz container); 142 grams cream cheese, softened (from 8 oz package); 1 egg; 59 milliliters Gold Medal® all-purpose flour; 79 milliliters chopped maraschino cherries; 946 milliliters powdered sugar; 1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix

Be My Valentine Cookie requires roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 18. One portion of this dish contains approximately 1g of protein, 7g of fat, and a total of 190 calories. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have almond extract, cream cheese, egg, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Mix together cookie mix, egg and flour.

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Cookie Mix

All Purpose Flour

Egg

Add 2 oz. cream cheese (reserve remaining 3 oz. cream cheese), 2 tablespoons butter and almond extract; blend. Shape dough into 12x13-inch heart on large ungreased cookie sheet.

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Almond Extract

Cream Cheese

Butter

Dough

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Baking Sheet

Bake at 375°F for 12 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown around edges. Cool on cookie sheet 20 minutes. Carefully remove to cooling rack. Cool completely.

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Baking Sheet

Wire Rack

Oven

Beat powdered sugar, 3 oz. cream cheese, remaining butter and cherry juice with electric mixer on low speed until smooth and creamy. Stir in maraschino cherries.

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Maraschino Cherries

Powdered Sugar

Cherry Juice

Cream Cheese

Butter

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Hand Mixer

Spread over cooled cookie.

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Spread

Spoon chocolate frosting, reserving 2 tablespoons, into decorating bag, with small star tip (#21); pipe around edges of cookie. Using reserved frosting pipe message on top of cookie.

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Chocolate Frosting