Valentines Cookies
You Will Need:
170g Plain flour (plus a tiny bit extra for dusting and such)
170g Butter (at room temperature)
55g Icing Sugar
55g Cornflour
And For Decorating:
Seedless Jam
Icing
Sprinkles/Cherries/Smarties or whatever else tickles your fancy!!!
How To:
First preheat your oven to 190 degrees and sprinkle a large baking tray with flour.
Then, put all your ingredients (except your decorating bits!!!) in a mixing bowl and mix it with your hands (a mixing spoon is NOT an option, time to get messy!!!!) until it forms together as a soft dough. Then, flour your surface and roll the dough out to about 1cm thick an cut out heart shapes. The hearts are a lot easier to cut out if you have a cutter, but if like me you don't cut one out of card and slice around it. Try to get an even number, otherwise you'll have random biscuits left over (on second thoughts that's not a bad idea...)
Pop them on the baking tray and bake them in the oven 10-12 minutes until pale golden brown and slightly firm, then leave them on a wire rack to cool down.
Now for the fun part!!
Spread a biscuit with jam, and pop another one on top so you get a lovely, biscuity jam sandwich. When you've done that, you can go nuts decorating them!!
I put icing on mine and covered them in hundreds and thousands, but the possibilities are endless! Like... you could put icing on and cover them in jelly tots or smarties, or use writing icing to put names on. Why stop there though? You could use chocolate spread or peanut butter instead of the jam, or add a little food colouring to your dough to make pink cookies!
Heres some I made earlier:
170g Plain flour (plus a tiny bit extra for dusting and such)
170g Butter (at room temperature)
55g Icing Sugar
55g Cornflour
And For Decorating:
Seedless Jam
Icing
Sprinkles/Cherries/Smarties or whatever else tickles your fancy!!!
How To:
First preheat your oven to 190 degrees and sprinkle a large baking tray with flour.
Then, put all your ingredients (except your decorating bits!!!) in a mixing bowl and mix it with your hands (a mixing spoon is NOT an option, time to get messy!!!!) until it forms together as a soft dough. Then, flour your surface and roll the dough out to about 1cm thick an cut out heart shapes. The hearts are a lot easier to cut out if you have a cutter, but if like me you don't cut one out of card and slice around it. Try to get an even number, otherwise you'll have random biscuits left over (on second thoughts that's not a bad idea...)
Pop them on the baking tray and bake them in the oven 10-12 minutes until pale golden brown and slightly firm, then leave them on a wire rack to cool down.
Now for the fun part!!
Spread a biscuit with jam, and pop another one on top so you get a lovely, biscuity jam sandwich. When you've done that, you can go nuts decorating them!!
I put icing on mine and covered them in hundreds and thousands, but the possibilities are endless! Like... you could put icing on and cover them in jelly tots or smarties, or use writing icing to put names on. Why stop there though? You could use chocolate spread or peanut butter instead of the jam, or add a little food colouring to your dough to make pink cookies!
Heres some I made earlier:
HAVE FUN!!! XOXO
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