Valentine cookies

Valentines is round the corner giving us another excuse to get into the kitchen and make some treats so we thought we would make these sweet love heart iced cookies

We made a chocolate cookies base  this recipe makes 24 cookies

275g plane flour

100g self raising flour

75g cocoa powder

120g caster sugar

120g butter

120g golden syrup

1 egg

• Sift all dry ingredients add the butter and rub together
• add syrup and egg bring together as a dough 
• roll out i do this in between cling film and make 2 flat circles and chill before cutting
• once cut cook for 14 min at 170c

to make the icing mix 

90ml water

500 kg icing sugar

15g egg white powder 

i use this for the line icing and then water it down a bit to make the flood icing, i use wilton gel colours to colour my icing as it is a lot more vibrant.  To create the dots i flooded with one colour first then went back a few mins later i went back to insert the dots with flooded icing too.