• 2 Eggs
• 1/3 cup Milk
• 1 -1/4 cups Sugar
• 1/2 cup Butter (softened)
• 1/4 cup Shortening
• 3 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 2 tsp Fresh Lemon Juice
• 1 tsp Grated Lemon Rind
• Green and Orange Liquid food Colors

Beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium speed till soft. Combine sugar with it and mix well.

Add eggs and milk and keep beating till blended properly.

Take a bowl and combine flour baking powder, baking soda and salt properly.

Add this with butter mixture and beat at low speed till well blended.

Add lemon rind and juice.

Fragment the dough into 4 equal parts and wrap each portion in plastic wrap.

Allow to cool for about 2 to 6 hours.

Roll a dough part on a lightly floured surface to a 1/4 inch thickness.

Cut it with a 3 inch heart-shaped cookie cutter and keep on lightly greased baking sheets.

Repeat the method for other dough parts.

Now bake them at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 8 to 9 minutes till light brown colour reached on bottoms.

Allow them to cool on baking sheets for about 2 minutes.

Transfer to wire racks and let them cool for 20 minutes.

Put green food color on 1/4 cup Icing and spread it on tops of cookies.

Put orange food color on reserved 1/4 cup Icing and put that into a zip-top plastic bag. Pierce 1 corner of the bag to make a small hole and pipe dots on cookies.

Heart Shaped Cookies are ready to serve.

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