Love bug biscuits
These cute cookies decorated with fondant icing in a heart-shaped ladybird pattern would make a lovely romantic gift
Difficulty and servings
Makes 20
Preparation and cooking times
Prep 30 mins
Cook 12 mins
plus chilling
- Put the flour, butter, sugar, vanilla and egg yolk in a food processor. Dribble in 1 tbsp water and blitz until the mixture comes together to form a dough. Tip onto a work surface and knead briefly to bring together, then wrap in cling film and chill for 20 mins.
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Roll out the dough to the thickness of a £1 coin. Use your 8cm heart cutter to stamp out heart shapes - you'll have to re-roll the trimmings to make 20 biscuits. Put the hearts on 2 baking trays and bake for 12 mins, swapping the trays over halfway through, until pale golden and crisp. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- Dye your lump of icing with red food colouring and wrap in cling film until ready to roll. Mix the icing sugar with enough water to make a thick icing. Dye the icing with the black food colouring. Pour the icing into a piping bag with a small plain nozzle attached (or use a small sandwich bag and snip off the corner). Roll out the red icing to 3mm thick and use your 6cm cutter to stamp out hearts. Stick onto the biscuits with a little of the black icing.
- Use the black icing to give your love bug a head at the pointy end, draw a line down the centre to give it wings, then add spots. Stick 2 pearly balls onto each love bug's head, then leave to set on a wire rack. You can pack your love bugs into boxes or cellophane bags to give as gifts for Valentine's Day.
PER BISCUIT
166 kcalories, protein 1g, carbohydrate 29g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 0g, sugar 22g, salt 0.1 g
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2013.
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Ingredients
- 175g plain flour
- 100g chilled butter , cubed
- 85g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
TO DECORATE
- 500g ready-to-roll fondant icing
- red food colouring
- 100g icing sugar
- black food colouring
- edible pearly ball decorations
YOU WILL ALSO NEED
- 8cm heart-shaped cutter
- 6cm heart-shaped cutter
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Difficulty and servings
Makes 20
Preparation and cooking times
Prep 30 mins
Cook 12 mins
plus chillingIngredients
- 175g plain flour
- 100g chilled butter , cubed
- 85g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
TO DECORATE
- 500g ready-to-roll fondant icing
- red food colouring
- 100g icing sugar
- black food colouring
- edible pearly ball decorations
YOU WILL ALSO NEED
- 8cm heart-shaped cutter
- 6cm heart-shaped cutter
PER BISCUIT
166 kcalories, protein 1g, carbohydrate 29g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 0g, sugar 22g, salt 0.1 g
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