Vanilla Cookie Hearts

Ingredients: make about 50 cookies

2 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour

75 gram Unsalted Butter, soften

90 gram Cream Cheese

270 gram White Sugar

1 Egg

1 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/8 teaspoon Salt

Food colorants (Blue, Red, Green, Yellow) 

Instruction:

1. With a folk, whisk butter and cream cheese together until smooth.  

2. Add sugar, egg, salt, and vanilla extract, whisk until they are well combined. 

3. Sift in flour and baking powder.  Mix and form a soft dough with a spatula.

4. Dive the dough into three small doughs and a large dough.  Tint each small doughs with a different food colorant.  Tint the large dough with yellow.

5. Roll one of the small dough into a ball.  Add the same amount of the yellow dough on top and roll it into a ball again.  This part is very causal, you can mix and match any sort of colours as your desire.

6. Place each coloured dough in individual zip bag.  Roll them into 1mm thick sheets.  Chill them for about an hour.

7. With a heart shape cookie cutter, cut out as many hearts as you may.  Collect the remnant, form it together into a ball, and then roll it into a 1mm sheet again, in order to cut out more heart cookie doughs. Repeat this step until all the doughs are used up. 

8. Place the cookie doughs on a baking sheet.  Bake them at 350F/175C for about 10 minutes.

9. Allow the cookies cool completely before storing them into an air-tight container.