Heart Shaped Mint cookies

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Heart Shaped Mint cookies

Heart shaped cookies with a middle of melted, hard candies.

Makes 7 - 8 dozen (96 servings).

1 cup butter

1 cup shortening

1 cup confectioners' sugar

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 cup crushed peppermint hard candies

1 Cream together butter or margarine, shortening, sugars, eggs and

vanilla. Add dry ingredients (except candy) and mix well. Dough will

be

greasy.

2 Using a floured surface and rolling pin, roll out dough. Cut out 2

inch heart shaped cookies. Using a 1 inch heart shaped cookie cutter,

cut

out a smaller heart in the middle of the larger one. Put cookies on a

foil lined cookie sheet.

3 Inside of cut-out heart, sprinkle crushed candy crumbs (such as red

life savers or candy canes). Spread the crumbs to the inside edges of

the cookie.

4 Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degees C) for 10-12 minutes. When cookes

have cooled, remove from sheets. The cookie can be frosted if you

desire