Valentine's Day Biscuits

 

Happy Valentine's Day beautifuls!  Since it is almost Valentine's Day I though I would show you a easy recipe to use for Valentine's Day.  For both the biscuit mixture and icing I have used an altered recipe from the Third Edition of the Day to Day Cookery Book.

Biscuits ~
Ingredients:
125g of butter or margarine (softened)
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 3/4 cups of self-raising flour
1 egg 
Vanilla 

1. Mix the butter and sugar together until the sugar has dissolved.  By this time the mixture should also look like a cream.
2. Add the egg and beat well.  
3. Add vanilla.
4. Cover bench top with a fine layer of flour.  Place dough on bench and create a ball.  After this evenly flatten out dough.
5. Use a heart shaped biscuit/cookie cutter and cut out biscuits.
6. Place dough shaped hearts onto a tray covered in greased baking paper.  Ensure they are placed evenly so they do not touch once cooked.

7. Bake biscuits at about 170 degrees/moderate heat till golden brown.

 

Icing~

I have created a marble butter icing to use as a base for my icing.  However biscuits can be just iced with the marble icing. 

Ingredients: 

2 cups of icing sugar

4 tablespoons of butter or margarine (softened)

1 teaspoon of milk

Vanilla

Pink icing:

1. Sift 1 cup of icing sugar into one bowl and add butter.

2. Mix until a cream has been created.

3. Slowly mix in milk until a paste has been created.

4. Add vanilla and mix.

5. Add pink food dye.  Do not mix in completely allowing the marble effect to be created.

6. Cover biscuits in marble icing.  The messier the marble effect is, the better it looks.  

White icing:

1. Sift 1 cup of icing sugar into one bowl and add butter.

2. Mix until a cream has been created.

3. Add vanilla and mix.

Here a few decoration ideas.  I have also use mixed cachous to decorate.

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day everyone.

~R xx