St.Valentine's Day Is On It's Way!

14th February. A special day to show your love to that someone special in your life! Many people think that their love can make do with a box of chocolates and card,but have you ever thought of baking something for them? It adds a personal touch that comes from you,and nothing can compare to it! Here is a valentines recipe that shows the gift is with all the love from your "heart"! :

 Boiled Sweet-Centred Biscuits (Stained Glass Cookies).

This project is relatively easy,all you will need is 1 quantity of Sugar Cookie Dough,2 different sized heart cookie cutters and flavours of boiled sweets(or hard candies) seperately crushed until fine. Once the cookie dough is rolled out to approximately 5mm thick,cut out heart shapes using the LARGEST cutter,then using the SMALLEST cutter to cut out a heart shape in the centre of the LARGER heart.Transfer the cookie's to a baking tray that has been lined with a sheet of greaseproof paper(or wax paper,as it's known in the US),within the centre of the cookies,where the heart shaped hole was cut out,place 1tbsp of the crushed sweets/candy and pat down until completely flat,you may need to add a bit more or a bit less (depending on how big/small your cutters are).
Bake for 10-20 minutes or until the edges are slightly golden and the candy centre has melted.
Leave to cool for ATLEAST 2 hours,or the candy centre will still be soft. Once completely cool,transfer the cookies to a box or cake/cookie tin,which has been lined with red tissue paper.
OPTIONAL- decorate the edges of the cookies with messages such as "Be Mine" and " I LOVE U" using white writing icing before placing into the box,Make sure the writing icing has had atleast 30 minutes to dry/harden.

Here is a picture of what the final result should look like:

Thanks for reading my latest blogpost! ~Jake :D