Rob’s Valentines Day Treats

10 Feb 23

In preparation for Valentines Day, Development Chef Rob has shared the love with us, by sharing his special recipe for these delicious heart-shaped sandwich cookies!

Here’s what you’ll need:

For the cookies:

• 250g unsalted butter
• 350g caster sugar
• 2 medium-sized eggs
• Zest of 2 lemons
• Pinch of salt
• 600g plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Red food colouring gel

For the filling:

• 200g unsalted butter
• 400g icing sugar
• Red food colouring gel
• Juice of 1 lemon

Instructions:

 

1. Preheat your oven to 180˚C and line 2 baking sheets with greaseproof paper (or use non-stick baking sheets).
2. Combine the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, whisking until light and fluffy. Then beat in the egg and lemon zest.
3. Sift the flour and baking powder into the bowl, add a pinch of salt, and whisk slowly until fully combined.
4. Evenly divide the mixture into 2 bowls. Add a few drops of red food colouring to one of the bowls, and mix to reach your desired shade of pink. Leave the other bowl plain.
5. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface until it is approx. ½ cm thick. Use 2 different sized heart shaped cookie cutters to cut an equal number of pink and plain hearts.
6. Bake the cookies in the oven for 6-8 minutes, until just starting to become golden at the edges.
7. While the cookies are baking, whisk the butter for the filling in a bowl, and slowly add the icing sugar until your buttercream has formed. Evenly divide the mixture into 2 bowls, and add a few drops of red food colouring to one of the bowls, and mix to reach your desired shade of pink. Leave the other bowl plain.
8. Once the cookies have baked and fully cooled, sandwich the heart-shaped cookies with the buttercream using a piping bag – you want to use the plain buttercream to sandwich the pink cookies, and the pink buttercream to sandwich the plain cookies!
9. Decorate however you like, and share with your loved ones!

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We baked these cookies in the incredible Blodgett Mark V; for more information on this fantastic oven get in touch with us here.