Valentine's Day

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

I know that LIKETOBAKE can beat me hands down as she is the master baker, but I have always liked these, post yours?



Hearts-filled-with-Love Cookies

Fill these favorites with raspberry or strawberry jelly.

Sift together:

2 1/2 c flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Cream together:

1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar

Stir in:

1 well beaten egg
2 tablespoons Pet Milk
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Chill overnight before using. Roll-out dough and cut with a heart cookie cutter. Each cookie needs a top and bottom. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

When cool, assemble cookies. Place a teaspoon of jelly on the bottom of a cookie, then cover with another cookie. (The tops of the cookies should be facing outward on both top and bottom.) Sprinkle with 4X Confectioner's Sugar

[Liketobake]

Last year I made my boyfriend some simple heart shaped black and white cookies. I posted the reciepe in anther thread a long time ago. Here it is again if you missed it.

This year I will be cooking something for my boyfriend. I learned a long time ago he perfers savoury foods to sweet. It will be something new, and maybe very slightly exotic. That is my plan at the moment, but it is going to be a very busy week with school for me, so we will see what happens. If the plan changes at all, it will still involve food.:p

This is one of my favourite cookie recipes, taken from Oetkar German Home Baking.

Black and White Cookies

Light pastry
9 oz (250 g) plain flour
1 level tsp baking powder
5.5 oz (150 g) sugar
1-2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon rum flavouring
1 egg
4.5 oz (125 g) butter or margerine

Dark Pastry
2 level tbsp coco
1 level tbsp sugar
1 tbsp milk

For the Pastry, mix the flour with the baking powder and seive onto a pastry board or cool slab. Make a well in the centre and pour in sugar, vanilla, rum flavour and egg. Draw in some flour from the sides of the well and mix these ingredients to form a thickish paste. Add the cold fat, cut into small pieces, and cover the whole with more of the flour. Starting from the middle, work all these ingredients quickly with hands into a firm smoothish paste. It should stick. Cool well for a time
Cut the pastry into two halves. Blend together the coco, sugar and milk and knead into one of the pastry halves. The two pasties can be combined in the following patterns:
For a pinwheel pattern roll out two equal sized rectangles, one in light and one in dark pastry. Lay them on top of each other (if they don't stick brush with egg white), roll them up together like a swiss roll.
For a chequered pattern, make two snake like rolls of white pastry, make two snake like kind of rolls of dark pastry, but them together in a chequered formation LD
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Cut the large rolls into small pieces of equal thickness from the large rolls. Place on cookie sheets. Preheat oven for 5 minutes, bake on medium heat for 10-15 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool on rack.

[momof2]

Hi Nochef,

Your recipe sounds interesting. Just wondering, what is Pet Milk? (Milk from a pet cow, or pet goat, maybe?) Sorry, I haven't heard the term before...

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

Hi Nochef,

Your recipe sounds interesting. Just wondering, what is Pet Milk? (Milk from a pet cow, or pet goat, maybe?) Sorry, I haven't heard the term before...

Sorry, I believe that you would call it condensed or canned, "tinned" milk? Actually, I use to raise dairy goats and their milk is great as milk, cheese, yogurt. But that is a subject for a different time. :)

[Liketobake]

For Valentines day I of course made some food for my boyfriend. I have not had much time lately for anything other then school and work. So I choose something fairly quick.
I made chicken fajitas, with tator tots (spelling), and I brought all the ingredients to make nachos over to his house because I thought it would be messy to make them and transport them. Also I bought some chinese green tea icecream> it was something new for both of us. Not too much flavour in it. I would not reccomend it. Although taste wise it is okay.


:D