Sweet Hot Heart Cookies

Who needs an expensive card when you can just as easily win over your Valentine with these cinnamon sugar cookies? Slip a cookie or two - or the whole batch - to your sweetheart and they're sure to be yours forever.

Ingredients needed:
1 cup sugar
1 cup softened butter or margarine
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup hot rock candies
1 tablespoon butter or margerine
Heart-shaped cookie cutter, about 3" tall

Directions:
Heat over to 400 degrees F. Combine sugar, 1 cup butter/margarine, egg, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add baking powder, flour, salt, and then beat at low speed until a soft dough forms.
Sprinkle flour on counter top. Roll the dough out to about 1/8" thick. Cut dough with cookie cutter (that has been dipped in flour). Place hearts 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 9 - 12 minutes, or until cookie edges are golden brown. Set the cookies aside cool down.
In a small saucepan over low heat, melt hot rock candies and 1 tablespoon butter/margarine, stirring the mixture until smooth. Dip half of each cooled down cookie into the melted candy, allowing excess to drip off. Place cookies on a cookie sheet lined with waxed paper. Refrigerate until set.

Add a handwritten love poem, a rose, and voila! You are all set to put cupid out of business!

Yields: 3 - 4 dozen cookies

No-Bake Love Cookies

Cookies, Candies, No-bake

2 c Sugar
1 Stick oleo
1/2 c Peanut butter
3 c Quick oats
1/3 c Cocoa
1/2 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla

Put butter, sugar, milk and cocoa in pan. Boil 1 or 2 minutes.