Valentine's baking recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 15 mins; recipe has icing sugar, plain flour, cornflour, ground almond, butter, glace cherry, almond and jam.
Cherry shortbread hearts
Course: Valentines baking
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Butter: 250g pack cold butter, cut into cubes
- Almond: 1/2 tsp almond extract
- Plain Flour: 200g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- Ground Almond: 50g ground almonds
- Cornflour: 50g cornflour
- Glace Cherry: 50g glace cherries, finely chopped
- Icing Sugar: 100g icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
- Jam: 8 tbsp cherry jam, sieved
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Sift the icing sugar, flour and cornflour together into a bowl. Stir in the ground almonds and butter, then rub in the butter until smooth. Stir in the chopped glace cherries and almond extract, and bring together to form a dough.
- Roll out on a lightly floured surface, then stamp out biscuits using a heartshaped cutter. Keep re-rolling the trimmings until all the dough is used. Carefully transfer the biscuits to baking trays lined with parchment and bake for just 8-10 mins until just pale golden.
- Using an upturned bottle top or similar, press gently into the centre of each biscuit to make a round indent. Spoon in a little jam and return to the oven for 2 mins. Remove and cool on a wire rack, before dusting with icing sugar to serve.
