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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.

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.

Hearty Jammie dodgers

 Love being in the kitchen with my girls it is such a pleasure to have some girly time chatting and baking, how could i not love being in the kitchen when both my girls are just so lovely i want to gobble them both up, even with Sophie wearing her scary Grufflo suit.  Well Valentines is fast approaching and we wanted to make an after school treat of some home made jammie dodgers but with a difference of being  heart shaped and completely over the top with glitter i have to say i think i need to improve my photo skills for the love of trying i could not get the glitter to twinkle as it did in real life.  I even went outside at one point to try and get shots with more sparkle but alas these will have to do

 Sophie is getting so good in the kitchen that she is sharing what she knows to her little sister Ella and even lets her have a go to although i can already see there will be fights over who gets the whisk

 our cookie dough recipe

350g plain flour
100g self raising
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

we made a plum and cranberry jam if you want to find out about making your own plum jam find my recipe here

once the cookies are cool and the jam warm just add a blob in between two cookies and gently push together when the jam cools these will set the cookies together.  we also made a icing glaze and brushed this on top of the cookies and then went to town with the red glitter and we added some firmer icing dots and squiggles for decoration

Valentine Victoria hearts

My husband had a request for a Victoria sponge cake so for Valentines i thought i would make this a little more special for him with these mini Victoria sponge Valentine hearts. My hubby is a cake hater so i was bowled over when he said he wanted a Victoria sponge cake.  I got my trusty sue chef Sophie spooning out all the ingredients before she put these into the bowl.



We made the cake in a flat square tin and when it was cooled used my heart shape cookie cutter to cut into the sponge to create hearts.  These were then cut in half and jam and butter cream put inside to make the Victoria sponge filling .  a swirl of butter cream was put on top and one of my fondant roses placed on top to make them extra special.