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Valentine shortbread cookies

Valentine shortbread cookies

Cook Time 20 minutes
Chilling time 30 minutes
Servings 35 cookies

Ingredients
  

Heart cookies

  • 200 g unsalted butter soften (see top tip)
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 300 g plain flour plus extra for sprinkling on the surface

Decoration

  • 200 g icing sugar
  • 7 tbsp water
  • food colouring – add enough depending on the colour you need
  • sprinkles sugar hearts, glitter

Instructions
 

  • Line two baking trays with baking paper and set aside.
  • Add the sugar and butter to a bowl and beat together until smooth. Top tip: it's best to leave the butter out so that it softens, this will be a lot easier to beat together with the sugar.
  • Gradually add the flour and beat until a dough is formed.
  • Lightly flour your worktop and roll out your dough to approx 0.5cm thick
  • Cut out your baby feet with a cutter and place on the baking paper. Once you've used up all the dough, place in the fridge for 30mins.
  • Pre-heat the oven to 180°c.
  • Once chilled, remove the baby shortbread feet from the fridge and bake in the oven for 15-20mins or until golden.
  • Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely and place on a wire rack.

Decorating

  • In a large bowl, add the icing sugar and gradually at the water to a thick consistency (you don't want it runny as it will fall off the biscuits). If using more than one colour divide into two or three bowls.
  • Gradually add the colouring to your icing to the colour you are wanting.
  • Add the icing into a piping bag, pipe a border around the biscuit and then gradually fill the biscuit, tilting so it fills evenly.
  • Then add your decorations. Repeat until all biscuits are iced.