Heart Cookie Wedding Favors!

by Alice Steventon
(England)

Hi everyone! This is just a little recipe I did for Valentine's Day, I think it can be adapted to make wonderful wedding favors or thank you's!

Why not write your guests name on their cookie? It adds a real personal touch and can double up as a table setting.

Remember that you don't have to cut hearts out of your dough, any simple shape will be great! Stars work well too, anything that ties in with your wedding theme :)

Heart Butter Biscuits Recipe

Prep: 20 mins
Cooking: 25 mins
Makes about 15 cookies

Ingredients

150g butter, room temperature
225g plain flour (substitute 50g of flour for cocoa powder for a choccy hit)
75g caster sugar

To Decorate

icing sugar
food colouring
sugar decorations of your choice

Method


Dice the butter into a big bowl. Tip in the flour, sugar and a pinch of salt. Gently rub in the butter with your fingertips and bring the dough together into a ball. Wrap in cling film and leave in the fridge for 15 minutes.

Preheat your oven to 170 C (340 F)

Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and roll to about 1/2 cm thick. Cut out heart shapes (or whatever you like) and lay onto a lined baking sheet. Bake for 15-25 minutes, until lightly golden. Leave to cool on a rack.

To decorate the biscuits, mix together a few tablespoons of icing sugar with a few drops of water or colouring (you can even use a flavouring essence here) to make a paste. Get creative!

These lovely little biscuits are light and delicious, I hope you go as crazy as I did with the decoration!

Thanks for reading :)