A home baked Valentine's Day biscuit to share with family, friends or a loved one. This heart shaped biscuit recipe is easy to make and children will love adding a boiled sweet and seeing its transformation into a stained glass window. This recipe made a lovely biscuit dough that was soft yet firm and rolled out easy without being too sticky.
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| Heart shaped stained glass biscuits |
- bowl
- Electric whisk
- parchment paper
- scales
- wooden spoon
- baking tray
- rolling pin
- heart shaped cookie cutters
makes 20 biscuits
100g muscovado sugar
150g butter (softened)
1 egg beaten
250g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp mixed spice
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
red boiled sweets
Instructions
Oven temp 180 degrees c / gas mark 4
Line your baking sheets
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| Boiled sweet biscuit recipe |
- Beat together the sugar and butter using an electric whisk, until creamed and soft. Add the egg and whisk together.
- Add in the flour, baking powder, mixed spice, salt and finally the vanilla extract. Using a wooden spoon mix together until you have a firm but slightly soft biscuit dough.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and using a rolling pin roll out until the dough is half an inch thick.
- Cut out your heart shaped biscuit and place onto the lined baking sheet. Using the smaller cutter cut out your centre heart and place a boiled sweet into the space.
- Bake for 17 minutes. Leave to cool on the tray for 10 minutes before peeling them of the parchment paper (the melted boiled sweet will be very hot) and placing them to finish cooling on a wire rack.
Best eaten within a few days, store in an air tight container.
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| Heart shaped stained glass biscuits |
I am linking up with February's Treat Petite at The Baking Explorer aptly called Love is in the air, co hosted by Cakeyboi. Also joining in with #cookblogshare at Supergolden Bakes.
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Such a lovely idea!! xx
ReplyDeletegreat recipe! i never would have thought of a boiled sweet in there
ReplyDeleteThis is quite cool. I shall give it a try!
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Very clever technique and a great effect! Thank you for entering into Treat Petite!
ReplyDeleteThey look delicious x
ReplyDeletePerfect biscuits for Valentine's day. I like the idea of adding a boiled sweet in the centre of the biscuit.
ReplyDeleteI tried stained glass biscuits once, but I burnt the sweet! I don't know what happened :( I'll try this recipe next time, thank you!
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These look lovely, I shall definitely give them a go
ReplyDeleteThese are fab I cat wait to try them with the children
ReplyDeleteI would never of thought to use boiled sweets in baking! I don't bake often enough. Excellent idea!
ReplyDeleteNow I would look a smartie pants if I made these biscuits, A star for you
ReplyDeleteI would look a real smartie pants if I made these biscuits. A star , sorry if you get this twice
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