Valentine’s chocolate heart biscuits - recipe
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Prepare
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Serves
12 -
Cook
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Skill
Easy
Ingredients
For the biscuits
- 100 g Butter (unsalted) softened
- 100 g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 125 g Plain white flour
- 50 g Cocoa powder
- 1 Egg(s) (free range) medium
For the decoration
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1
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C, gas mark 4) and line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment.
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Place the butter, sugar, cocoa powder and flour into the bowl of a food processor or mixer and blend until you get fine crumbs, add the egg and mix until you get a stiff dough.
For this step you'll need:
- 100g Butter (unsalted) softened
- 100g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 125g Plain white flour
- 1 Egg(s) (free range) medium
- 50g Cocoa powder
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3
Bring the dough together into a ball, wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
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4
Lightly dust the work surface with flour and roll out the dough until it is the thickness of a £1 coin. Then cut out hearts shapes using a heart shaped cutter.
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Place the biscuits on a baking tray and place in the oven to bake for about 10-12 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.
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Whilst the biscuits are cooling roll out the icing on a surface dusted with icing sugar and using smaller heart cutters, cut out some heart shapes. When the biscuits are cool use a little water to stick the icing to the biscuits.
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