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Love bug biscuits recipe

20 ratings

These love bug biscuits will find the way to your partner's heart through simply being so adorable and delicious. See method

Serves 30
30 mins to prepare and 10 mins to cook
148 calories / serving
Vegetarian

Ingredients

150g unsalted butter
100g caster sugar
50g light brown sugar
1 medium egg
1 tsp vanilla essence (with seeds)
300g plain flour, plus extra for dusting

For the icing

1 x 250g pack red ready-to-roll icing
icing sugar, for dusting
4 tbsp icing sugar mixed with 1 tsp boiled water
1 x 76g pack chocolate and caramel writing icing pens

Each serving contains

Energy
620kj
148kcal 7%
Fat
5g 8%
Saturates
3g 15%
Sugars
16g 18%
Salt
0g 0%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 24.8g Protein 1.3g Fibre 0.5g

Method

Preheat the oven to gas 4, 180°C, fan 160°C and line 2 baking sheets with greaseproof paper.
Whisk the butter and sugars in a mixing bowl, until soft and light. Beat in the egg and vanilla essence. Sift in the flour and whisk until all combined. Bring together into a ball with your hands.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to ½ cm thick. Stamp out 30 heart shapes with a 7cm heart-shaped cookie cutter and place on the baking trays. Chill for 15 mins in the fridge.
Remove from the fridge and cook for 8-10 mins, until just turning golden at the edges. Cool on a wire rack.
Meanwhile, roll out the red ready-to-roll icing on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Roll to ½ cm thick and stamp out 30 heart shapes with a 6cm heart-shaped cutter.
Brush a little of the icing onto the centre of the cookies and top with a red fondant heart. Gently press to secure in place. With the black pen from the writing icing pack, draw the spine, spots and head onto the love bugs. Finish by giving the bug eyes with the white pen. Leave to set.

Storing instructions: Plain biscuits, fully cooled, will keep in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Iced biscuits should be eaten on the same day. Best stored in an airtight container, such as a tupperware box or cake tin.

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