Instructions

• Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth, not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
• Add egg, continue to mix.
• Add the vanilla, continue mixing.
• Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt together.
• Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
• Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
• Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
• Put in the refrigerator for about 2 hours 
• Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and set it out to soften up a bit.
• Divide the dough into 4 parts. 
• Take one part and add Purple gel coloring 
• Take a second part and add Pink gel coloring 
• Take a third part and add teal gel coloring 
• Take the fourth part and leave it plain. 
• Put the dough back into the fridge for an hour
• Pull the dough out and then take one of the colored dough. 
• Put flour onto the surface, flatten out one color dough into a rectangle and set aside. 
• Repeat with the remaining colored dough. 
• Place the flatten colored dough on top of each other. 
• Cut the dough into 3-inch strips, big enough to fit a mini heart shaped cookie cutter. 
• Take the mini heart cookie cutter and cut out cookies from the stacked colored strips.
• Take the hearts and stack them on top of each other. 
• Take the plain dough and pinch off some dough to make 'rods'
• Take one 'rod' and put it in the middle of the colored heart 
• Repeat with the remaining plain dough until the heart is fully covered. 
• Lightly roll the cookie dough so that the roll is smooth. 
• Put into the fridge again for 30 minutes. 
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Pull out the dough and take a sharp knife and cut thick slices of dough. 
• Place onto a cookie sheet with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown
• Pull off cookie sheet and place onto a cooling rack to cool

Enjoy!