Heart Shaped Cookies

What Goes With It

• Hot chocolate
• Strawberries
• Cold milk
• Tea

How to Make Heart Shaped Cookies

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1. Beat the butter and caster sugar for 3 minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla, then stir in the flour and salt to a dough.

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2. Roll the dough to 5 mm between two sheets of baking paper. Chill for 15 minutes and heat the oven to 180°C / 355°F.

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3. Cut hearts with a 6 cm cutter and set them 2 cm apart on lined trays. Bake for 12 minutes until the edges are pale gold. Cool completely.

   Mark done Start 12 min timer

4. Stir the icing sugar with the milk and colouring and spread over the hearts. Leave to set.

   Mark done

Notes From the Method

Roll between baking paper.

Chill before cutting.

If your oven runs hot, check at 9 minutes.

Ice only when cold.

Leftovers

Keeps in an airtight tin for 1 week.

Common Questions

Nutrition per Serving

Per serving, calculated from the ingredient list with USDA FoodData Central figures (SR Legacy). A calculation, not a laboratory analysis: brands, cuts and how you measure change the real numbers. How the figures are worked out.