I know. Too cute.
Oh well. I wanted to recreated Citizen Cake's shortbread cookies, I had a heart shaped cookie cutter, and everyone knows I always love pink frosting. If these happened to pop out of the oven near V-day, so be it.
I'm too tired to find and post the recipes I used. Suffice it to say, the Chowhounds were a valuable asset as usual. The recipe shall be posted tomorrow.
The cookes and filling were actually incredibly easy to make. It was the putting them together that was hard. First of all, perfectly cut out hearts tend to expans into unidentical hearts when you put them in the oven to bake. So first I had to pair up each heart with its soul mate, then very carefully fill each sandwich without breaking the rather crisp cookies. It wasn't easy, and cookies were sacrificed. But I did manage to make a plateful without any catastrophes.
The rejects, of course, were eaten.
How does it compare? The cookies I made were tasty. The filling had a nice tartness to them. However, I'm pretty sure Citizen Cake uses a plain lemon buttercream. And their shortbread recipe is a lot softer. Next time I'm going to use a shortbread cookie with cornstarch (it softens the cookie) and a filling that's more like cupcake frosting.
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omg, your photo gives me a valentine cookie craving. and i just had a workout snack too.
Pastery rejects rule! They might look funny but they taste just as good.
I want to go to Citizen's Cake next time to eat cookies! Although, we can always just make it at your place and it'll be just as good and just as fun. Did Monica ever tell you she wants to own a bakery when she gets older. I think her making gnocchi with you had something to do with it, even though gnocchi isn't bread. I bet it was from all that kneading. Gnocchi is supposed to potato dumplings, but is it possible to make gnocchi into shapes without them breaking? Perhaps like butterflies? (yes...I want to use the butterfly cookie cutter you got me, but not only for cookies. =) )
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