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:
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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
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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
Hi there!!! This is such a beautiful idea, you could make star-shaped ones for Christmas too! I love it. x
Jayne
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
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
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
These are lovely, my two would have so much fun icing these!
Emma
What a great idea for teachers gifts.
MummyNeverSleeps
Oh these are so cute!These would make really lovely Christmas gifts 🙂
Becky
These look so cute!
Mammasaurus
So lovely Otilia – and perfect for a gift for teacher at Xmas too!
Otilia
Oh yeh didn’t think of that 🙂
Mum of One
Wonderful Otilia! These make such a thoughtful gift. Thanks so much for sharing with the Monday #pinitparty 🙂
Polka Dot Family
These look like a wonderful Valentine’s treat, perfect for getting children involved in the day
Mina Joshi
These cookies look great. The idea of giving them as presents is great.
Ness
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
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
These look delicious. My kids love a heart-shaped biscuit at this time of year.
Laura
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!
agatapokutycka
They look fantastic. Small gift made with love… it doesn’t get any better 🙂
Mary Louise
Great recipe but i absolutely love the way you have prepared the post enabling us to print it out!
Genius and really well displayed. Thank you!
Rachel
OOh these look lovely and perfect for the ‘V’ event x
Clare Nicholas
I love these being in a pretty jar, makes them extra special
Kara
They look amazing – I would love to recieve a gift like this from the kids
Sara-Jayne
We mae sparkly heart cookies last week – they were gorgeous like theses – and didn’t last long 😉
Emma | TheMiniMesAndMe
One word – yum!
Such a great gift idea too x
Nayna Kanabar (@citrusspiceuk)
I love food pressies and these home made cookies look awesome and perfect for gifting.