As well as making lovely cards for our mummies and daddies we are going to be decorating love heart cookies and men (the baked variety that is!)
The recipe is really simple and yummy!
Ingredients:
250g soft butter
320g plain flour sieved
125g sieved icing sugar
1 tablespooon of milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
You will also need a mixing bowl (if you have an electric mixer this is far less messy!), cookie cutters, a rolling pin, a sieve and a baking try.
Step 1:
Mix all the dry ingredients either by hand in a mixing bowl or in the electric mixer, add the milk at the end and knead or mix to make a soft but not sticky dough.
Step 2:
Sprinkle a little flour on the work top and over the rolling pin, take a small part of the dough and roll it out to about 6mm thick.
Step 3:
Cut out the shapes with the cookie cutters, if the dough sticks to surface try using a metal spatula to pick up the shapes and put them on a lightly greased baking try (baking paper optional).
Note. Whilst one batch of cookies are baking you can keep rolling and cutting and put the shapes on a plate until the baking tray is free.
Try not to eat the freshly baked cookies straight away even though they are delicious like this!
Step 4:
Bake at 170C for 12 minutes the cookies will look white (ish) when they are ready. Use the metal spatula to pick them up and put them on a wired rack or something similar to cool down.
Step 5 (optional):
Once the cookies have cooled you can decorate them or even better get the kids to decorate them like are doing next week!
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and I'll keep you posted next week about our Valentine's mayhem!
xoxoxo
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