Valentine Heart Petits Fours by Twin2

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Valentine Heart Petits Fours

Submitted by: Twin2
Last Updated: 2/12/2007

• First Make:

• Cream Cheese Pound cake

• 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
• 8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
• 3 cups sugar
• 6 large eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Beat the butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating 5 to 7 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until yellow disappears. Add vanilla, mix well.

• Combine flour, salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. Pour batter into a greased and floured half sheet pan that has been lined with parchment paper.
• Fill a 2 cup ovenproof measuring cup with water, and place in oven with cake pan.

Bake at 300 to 325 degrees until a wooden pick inserted in center come out clean and cake is light golden brown. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes; invert pan onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment, cool completely on a wire rack.

• This makes it lots easier when cutting out the cake shapes.

• Next:

• Using a 2 1/2 inch heart shaped metal cookie cutter, with sides at least as deep as the cake, cut out your shapes. If you reverse the shapes on each alternating row, you will hardly have any scraps.

• Make Petit Four Icing:

• 2 lbs. confectioners’ sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 3/4 cup light cream
• 1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice
• 1 teaspoon almond extract

• Place all ingredients in the top of a double boiler over hot water. Stir until smooth. Keeping icing over the pan of hot water to keep it from setting up, dip cake shapes into the icing and remove with a skewer or fork. Put on cooling racks over cookie sheets to drain. When all are done re-dip them to get a thicker coat of icing if desired.

• Make Royal Icing:

• (For 1 cup)
• 2 1/2 Tablespoons Meringue powder
• 1/2 lb. powdered sugar
• 3 Tablespoons Water

• Put in bowl of electric mixer and beat until it is nice and stiff. (You want the definition of the fancy tip to show.) Put in an icing bag and using a pretty tip, pipe in heart shapes on the top of the little cakes. I used the star tip.

• Put half a maraschino cherry in the center of the icing heart.

• Ta Da! Beautiful!

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