Little Heart Cookies

At the beginning of this year I was a guest blogger on the lady of the crafts blog – Maggy over at Red Ted Art. I was taking part in her 31 Days of Love in the runner up for Valentine’s Day. So as it is almost Christmas thought it was time to introduce you to the recipe too. In a jar like below they could make a really good Foodie Present:

You can either put them in a nice jar like above or wrap them up like below with the Christmas Cookies:

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Little Heart Cookies

Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

16 mins

Total time

36 mins

Little Heart Cookies

Author: Otilia Stocks

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: International

Serves: 40

Ingredients

50g butter, softened
25g icing sugar
quarter of a tsp of red food colouring
1 tsp of milk
quarter of a tsp of vanilla essence
75g plain flour
Other things you will need:
cookie cutter
rolling pin
two baking trays
a bowl

Instructions

Wipe/spray the baking trays with cooking oil.
Heat the oven to 180C.
Put the butter into a bowl and stir until its creamy.
Sift the icing sugar into the butter and sift again until the sugar its integrated and smooth.
Add the red food colouring into the mixture and mix until the butter cream is light pink.
Add the milk and vanilla essence.
Sift the flour through a sieve into the bowl and stir everything together.
Get your hands into the bowl and squeeze the mixture into a dough.
Dust your rolling pin and a clean surface with flour
Roll out the dough until it is slightly thinner than your little finger.
Use the cookie cutter to cut lots of heart shapes from the dough.
Lift the shapes onto the baking trays.
You might have scrap of dough left off so do squeeze the leftovers and repeat the procedure above until you have no dough left.
Bake the cookies for 6-8 minutes.
Take them out of the oven and leave them on trays until they are cool.
While they are still slightly warm sprinkle some more icing sugar on top.

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25 Comments

Kezzie

November 23, 2014 at 9:54 pm Reply

Hi there!!! This is such a beautiful idea, you could make star-shaped ones for Christmas too! I love it. x

Jayne

November 25, 2014 at 11:31 am Reply

These are adorable! Sausage and I are planning some homemade class gifts for Christmas this year and these would be perfect! I’m just popping by from the Monday Parenting Pin Party – I’ve pinned this post to my Food and Cooking board. (Mum’s the Word on Pinterest)

Sonya Cisco

November 25, 2014 at 12:11 pm Reply

Ooh they look so pretty and sound yummy, love the idea of making them as a gift!

Anya from Older Single Mum and The Healer

November 25, 2014 at 12:31 pm Reply

Oh these are a brilliant idea – the heart shape itself says so much and we will defo be making them for some gifts. Thank you for sharing 🙂

Cass@frugalfamily

November 25, 2014 at 7:33 pm Reply

These are lovely, my two would have so much fun icing these!

Emma

November 25, 2014 at 8:34 pm Reply

What a great idea for teachers gifts.

MummyNeverSleeps

November 26, 2014 at 1:38 am Reply

Oh these are so cute!These would make really lovely Christmas gifts 🙂

Becky

November 26, 2014 at 1:50 pm Reply

These look so cute!

Mammasaurus

November 26, 2014 at 4:05 pm Reply

So lovely Otilia – and perfect for a gift for teacher at Xmas too!

Otilia

November 27, 2014 at 7:59 am Reply

Oh yeh didn’t think of that 🙂

Mum of One

November 26, 2014 at 8:51 pm Reply

Wonderful Otilia! These make such a thoughtful gift. Thanks so much for sharing with the Monday #pinitparty 🙂

Polka Dot Family

January 24, 2015 at 5:56 pm Reply

These look like a wonderful Valentine’s treat, perfect for getting children involved in the day

Mina Joshi

January 24, 2015 at 11:04 pm Reply

These cookies look great. The idea of giving them as presents is great.

Ness

January 25, 2015 at 2:44 pm Reply

Cookies are always a popular option here! It’s a lovely gift with a bit of love and care in its making.

Jen aka Muminthemadhouse

January 25, 2015 at 7:57 pm Reply

I think me and the boys will bake these next week for them to take in to school for valentines. They look ace

Healthier Mummy

January 25, 2015 at 8:45 pm Reply

These look delicious. My kids love a heart-shaped biscuit at this time of year.

Laura

January 26, 2015 at 6:34 am Reply

Oh, these look yummy. I will have to try out your recipe. Hope all is well with you and your wonderful family, I can’t believe how long it’s been since you were in the UK. If you ever have any plans to return for a holiday, let me know!