Love bug biscuits
- Cassie Best
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Makes 20
Easy
Prep: 30 mins
Cook: 12 mins
Plus chilling
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These cute cookies decorated with fondant icing in a heart-shaped ladybird pattern would make a lovely romantic gift
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Ingredients
Nutrition
Units:
MetricUS
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175g plain flour
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100g chilled butter
cubed
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85g icing sugar
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1 tsp vanilla extract
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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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Nutrition: per biscuit
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kcal166
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fat5g
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saturates3g
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carbs29g
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sugars22g
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fibre0g
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protein1g
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salt0.1g
low
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Method
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step 1
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.
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step 2
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.
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step 3
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.
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step 4
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.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2013
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