Heart Shaped Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:
• 2 Eggs
• 1/3 cup Milk
• 1 -1/4 cups Sugar
• 1/2 cup Butter (softened)
• 1/4 cup Shortening
• 3 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 2 tsp Fresh Lemon Juice
• 1 tsp Grated Lemon Rind
• Green and Orange Liquid food Colors
   
How to make Heart Shaped Cookies:
•    Beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium speed till soft. Combine sugar with it and mix well.
•    Add eggs and milk and keep beating till blended properly.
•    Take a bowl and combine flour baking powder, baking soda and salt properly.
•    Add this with butter mixture and beat at low speed till well blended.
•    Add lemon rind and juice.
•    Fragment the dough into 4 equal parts and wrap each portion in plastic wrap.
•    Allow to cool for about 2 to 6 hours.
•    Roll a dough part on a lightly floured surface to a 1/4 inch thickness.
•    Cut it with a 3 inch heart-shaped cookie cutter and keep on lightly greased baking sheets.
•    Repeat the method for other dough parts.
•    Now bake them at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 8 to 9 minutes till light brown colour reached on bottoms.
•    Allow them to cool on baking sheets for about 2 minutes.
•    Transfer to wire racks and let them cool for 20 minutes.
•    Put green food color on 1/4 cup Icing and spread it on tops of cookies.
•    Put orange food color on reserved 1/4 cup Icing and put that into a zip-top plastic bag. Pierce 1 corner of the bag to make a small hole and pipe dots on cookies.
•    Heart Shaped Cookies are ready to serve.