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When I think about love, I think about Bollywood. Iconic movies like Dilwale Dilhunia Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham shaped my idea of love and today I’m paying homage to my favorite quotes from the movies with Bollywood Conversation Heart Cookies! I was a total believer in Rahul and Anjali and dreamt of finding my “hero”.
I also bought cookie alphabet stamps off Amazon so I could stamp my sayings into the cookies, but if you don’t have them you could also use an edible ink marker and write the quotes onto the cookies after they are baked. 
The key to these cookies is to keep the dough cold before baking them so they don’t lose their shape, so don’t skip out on the freezing step before baking.
If you end up making these for Valentine’s day be sure to tag me on social media @milkandcardamom.
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Bollywood Sugar Cookie Hearts
- Total Time: 1 hour 9 minutes
- Yield: 20 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
Valentine’s Day sugar cookie conversation hearts with a Bollywood twist! Makes 36 cookies
Ingredients
- 4 3/4 cups plus 2 tbsp (588 g) all-purpose flour
- 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 tsp freshly ground cardamom
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cup (340 g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cup (297 g) granulated sugar
- 1 large (57 g) egg (or 3 tbsp of heavy cream)
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- food dye (rose and violet gel coloring)
Instructions
- Add flour, baking powder, cardamom and salt to mixing bowl and whisk until well combined. Set aside.
- Add butter and sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer and mix with the paddle attachment for 5 minutes, or until the butter is fluffy and pale. Scrape down the bowl and add the egg and vanilla and mix for 2 minutes. Add the dry ingredients and mix on low until well combined.
- Take about a grapefruit-size of dough and knead in one of your food colorings until well blended. Shape it into a disc and wrap in plastic wrap and set aside. Do the same for the next color. Take the rest of the dough and shape it into a disc and wrap it in plastic wrap as well. Place all 3 discs of dough into the fridge for 1 hour.
- To marble the dough, place the plain dough disc onto your work surface and smear a few pieces of the colored doughs on top. break that dough in half and stack them and press them down. Keep adding colored dough and smashing, stacking and pressing until you have a nice marble effect.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Roll out half the dough in between two sheets of parchment paper until it is 1/4 inch thick. Place in the freezer for 5 minutes. Cut the cookies out with your cookie cutter. Roll out the scraps with the rest of the dough and repeat until no dough is left. Use alphabet stamps to gently stamp in your sayings.
- Place the cookies onto the parchment-lined baking sheet 1 inch apart. Freeze the sheet for 10 minutes, this is important so the cookies keep their shape.
- Bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Cool completely on a rack. Store in an airtight container
Notes
Recipe adapted from Bake From Scratch
- Prep Time: 60 mins
- Cook Time: 9 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: Indian, American
