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Love Cookies
(Makes 15 small heart shaped biscuits)
These pretty pink iced heart cookies glistening with Whitworths coloured granulated sugar and decorated with tiny sweets add a romantic touch to a coffee aux deux, or for a special Valentine’s tea party, when if you punch a small hole in each cookie before you bake them. Thread them with decorative ribbons, you can tie each heart cookie around a pretty folded tea napkin which will say it all.
Heart shaped biscuit cutters for shaping the cookies are readily available from cookware shops.
Equipment & Ingredients
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85g (3oz) butter, softened |
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140g (5oz) Whitworths caster sugar |
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Grated rind ½ small orange |
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200g (7oz) plain flour, sifted |
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About 250g (9oz) Whitworths icing sugar sifted twice |
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1 large egg white, beaten into a light froth |
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A few drops of red edible food colouring |
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To finish tiny decorative sweets for party cakes bought from a specialist cake making shop, or the baking section of a good supermarket, plus Whitworths coloured sugar (see tip). |
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Method
Cream the butter and add the sugar. Beat them together thoroughly until the mixture looks pale and fluffy. Mix in the egg, zest and and vanilla followed by the flour and salt. Combine into a firm dough then lightly knead into a ball and cover it with cling film. Leave to chill and firm in the fridge for about 20-25 minutes.
Roll out the biscuit dough into a 5mm (¼") thickness. Using the heart shaped biscuit cutter stamp out the shapes and carefully transfer them to a lightly greased baking sheet, set a little apart as they spread a little.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C / 350°F / Gas mark 4, for about 7 minutes until the biscuits begin to turn a pale golden around the edges.
To finish Mix the icing sugar with the egg white into a soft icing and tint with the food colouring until evenly coloured. Coat the tops of biscuits with the warm pink icing, and while it is still fairly fluid press over the sweet decorations and coloured sugar in pretty patterns .
Tips
For Whitworths Pink Coloured Sugar
Half fill a screw top jam jar with Whitworths granulated sugar. Add several small drops of red food colouring and shake the jar vigorously until the sugar is evenly coloured pink. Add more drops of red food colouring if you prefer a deeper shade of pink, or red tinted sugar.
Kiddies Party Cookies
The cookie dough may also be re shaped with different cutters into flower, animal or butterfly motives. Ice and decorate the cooked biscuits and pile them onto party plates for a pretty addition to a birthday tea party.
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