Categories: Food & Drink

Cheese Heart Cookies for CHristmas Day

Christmas is around the corner, get ready to bake a huge batch of Cheese Heart Cookies for your little ones and friends to enjoy this joyful festival.

You will be amazed that Cheese Heart Cookies are SO TASTY and CHEESY, super delicious for kids and mice!

Recently, my best friend had just shared with me her Cheese Heart Cookies at Whatsapp, she showed me her cookie photos which looked so tempting that I couldn’t resist either.

How to bake Cheese Heart Cookies

Initially, I thought that this cookie is alike any normal Cheese cookies , you know just use the normal cookie batter , add in a cupful of grated cheese would do.

Nope, this Cheese Heart Cookies are exceptionally different from others!

Yes, you need at least 1 cup of grated cheese from cheddar cheese or Parmesan cheese.

Perhaps you wouldn’t want your kids to indulge to much sweet thing in this cookie, you could reduce the grated cheese into half and add in 1 tablespoon of honey instead.

You may notice that no sugar is involve at all because cheese is naturally sweet already.

In addition, you will need a little paprika, but it is optional.

However, mustard is a MUSt to produce a little soury taste.

If you use yellow mustard from the bottle, add it in when you mix butter and cheese together. It will help to combine the butter mixture and the dry ingredients well.

Glazing cookies with beaten egg helps to produce the golden effect onto them, golden brown and shiny cookies.

Additional grated cheese and toasted sesame seeds are extra decorative ingredients but the next time I decide to bake these cookies again, I would exclude the grated cheese on the decorative side.

Too much cheese already!

Cheese Heart Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

-125g salted butter

-100g grated cheese ( roughly 1 cup)

Sieved together these ingredients

-200g self raising flour

-1/2 tsp paprika

-1 egg

-1 tsp mustard powder

Glazing

-1 beaten egg

-1/2 cup grated cheese for decoration ( cheddar or Parmesan cheese)

-1/2 cup white toasted sesame seeds for decoration

Method of baking Cheese Heart Cookies

Cream salted butter for a minute.
Add in grated cheese and egg. Beat with a fork until light and creamy.
Add in mustard, sifted flour and paprika.
Mix together to form a soft dough.
Wrap the dough in a cling plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for 20-30min until firm.
On a floured flat surface ( I used to work my cookie dough on a chopping board), roll out the dough with the rolling pin. Make sure the rolling pin is dusted with flour too so that the dough doesn’t stick to it.
Roll the thickness of the dough 5mm thick.
Dip the heart cookie cutter to dip into the flour, stamp the heart cookies out.
Place the Cheese Hearts onto a lightly greased baking tray.
Brush the surface of the cookie dough with egg yolk to produce the golden brown effect.
Sprinkle with grated cheese and toasted sesame seeds on top.
Bake in preheat oven at 180C for 20min until golden brown and crisp.