Love bug biscuits
Love bug biscuits might be just the hor d'oeuvre you are searching for. One serving contains 195 calories, 1g of protein, and 8g of fat. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 20. Plenty of people made this recipe, and 268 would say it hit the spot. This recipe is typical of Creole cuisine. Head to the store and pick up butter, edible pearly ball decorations, egg yolk, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 42 minutes.
Instructions
Put the flour, butter, sugar, vanillaand egg yolk in a food processor.Dribble in 1 tbsp water and blitz untilthe mixture comes together to forma dough. Tip onto a work surface and knead briefly to bring together, thenwrap in cling film and chill for 20 mins.
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas
Roll out the dough to the thickness of a £1coin. Use your 8cm heart cutter to stampout heart shapes – you’ll have to re-rollthe trimmings to make 20 biscuits.
Put thehearts on 2 baking trays and bake for12 mins, swapping the trays over halfwaythrough, until pale golden and crisp.Leave to cool on a wire rack.Dye your lump of icing with red foodcolouring and wrap in cling film untilready to roll.
Mix the icing sugar withenough water to make a thick icing.Dye the icing with the black foodcolouring.
Pour the icing into a pipingbag with a small plain nozzle attached(or use a small sandwich bag and snip offthe corner).
Roll out the red icing to 3mmthick and use your 6cmcutter to stamp outhearts. Stick onto thebiscuits with a littleof the black icing.Use the black icing togive your love bug a head at the pointy end, draw a line downthe centre to give it wings, then addspots. Stick 2 pearly balls onto eachlove bug’s head, then leave to set ona wire rack. You can pack your lovebugs into boxes or cellophane bagsto give as gifts for Valentine’s Day.