This recipe for Heart-Shaped Biscuits is one of my favorite recipes to make during the month of love, when you want to spoil a special Valentine.
There's nothing like Valentine's Day to bring out your inner baker, whether you're baking for your partner, your parents, your little one, or yourself. We all know that love is best shown through food. So carry on showing the love with this Cherry Filled Cupcake recipe or this Raspberry Vanilla Cake.
Why This Heart Shape Biscuit Recipe Works
- Recipe name: Heart Shape Biscuits
- Ready in: 1hr 35 minutes (including chilling time)
- Serves: 40 cookies
- Main ingredients: Flour, eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, and icing sugar.
- Perfect for: Valentine's Day, festive cookie boxes, and even a sugar cookie recipe for decorating, as they hold their shape while baking.
- Why I love it: The vanilla dough comes together in a food processor, so it's super simple to make! They are also just dusted with icing sugar, so no decorating skills needed.
- Calories: 80kcal
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If you are looking for other recipes that are perfect for Valentine's Day, try out these Raspberry and Chocolate Cupcakes or this Red Velvet Mug Cakes recipe. And if you're after other biscuit recipes, you have to try these Dulce de Leche Cookies or these Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies.
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Key Ingredients
- Unsalted butter - Take the butter out of the fridge about an hour before making this recipe. It shouldn't be rock hard or too soft.
- Castor sugar - Use castor sugar or superfine sugar for this recipe.
- Cake flour - Use cake flour, plain flour, or all-purpose flour to make these cookies.
- Extra-large eggs - I use eggs that weigh 56 grams each. If you aren't sure if you have the same eggs, weigh the eggs you have and adjust accordingly.
- Powered sugar - these cookies are decorated with a simple dusting of powdered sugar after baking.
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
Variations
This is a great recipe to get creative with! You can choose to fill these cookies by sandwiching two together. Try different jams, like sweet raspberry, apricot, or blueberry. You could also fill these cookies with chocolate spread, peanut butter, lemon curd, or even frosting. This Raspberry Buttercream would be amazing with these cookies!
Adding flavors to this simple sugar cookie dough is also an option! Lemon zest, almond extract, and even spices will work! Have a look at this recipe for Spiced Cherry Jam, or this Homemade Clementine Marmalade Jam to learn how to make your own jam.
How to Make Heart Shape Biscuits
- Step 1: Add the softened butter and sugar to a food processor. Pulse until well combined, and there are no lumps of butter.
- Step 2: First, add the whole egg to the creamed mixture with the food processor running, and pulse until combined. Then add the egg yolk and vanilla and pulse again.
- Step 3: Sift together the flour and salt, and add this flour mixture to the egg and butter mixture all at once. Pulse until a dough forms; do not overmix.
- Step 4: Remove the dough from the food processor, cover it in cling film, and refrigerate for an hour. Preheat the oven to 160°C (320°F) and line two large baking trays with parchment paper.
- Step 5: Remove the chilled dough from the fridge and roll it out on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of ½ cm ( ¼ inch) using a rolling pin. Use heart-shaped cookie cutters to shape the dough. Place the cookies onto the prepared baking tray in a single layer.
- Step 6: Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for 15 minutes, or until they are light golden brown. Allow the baked cookies to cool on a cooling rack. Dust the cookies with icing sugar, serve, and enjoy!
How to Easily Roll Cookie Dough
Chilled dough that has firmed up is much easier to roll than warm dough that tends to stick to a counter! Lightly dust the dough and the countertop with flour before you begin rolling, and flip the dough often to prevent it from sticking to the counter. If rolling dough isn't your thing, try these slice-and-bake Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies or these easy Chunky Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Storage
After baking and decorating these made-from-scratch biscuits, store them in an airtight container at room temperature for about a week.
For freezing, the cookie dough can be frozen before baking. Cover the dough in plastic wrap, freeze it for up to 3 months, and bake it later. Thaw the dough in the fridge overnight before using. Baked cookies can be frozen in the same way.
Expert Tips
- Make sure you have rolled the dough evenly before cutting out the cookies; cookies of different thicknesses will bake differently.
- Cookies burn very easily, so make sure you have tested the oven's true temperature. If you don't trust your oven, try baking a few cookies first and see if they burn, then adjust the temperature as needed. This helps ensure you bake the perfect cookie!
- Make sure the butter and sugar have creamed enough before adding the eggs.
- If you are struggling to roll out the dough, cover it and refrigerate it to firm up; chilled dough is much easier to roll.
Heart Shape Biscuits FAQs
This happens if the oven is too hot. Make sure you have tested the oven's true temperature with an oven thermometer. Also, bake the trays of cookies separately.
Take the butter out of the fridge about an hour before making this recipe. It shouldn't be rock hard or too soft.
Yes, you can! You may need to form it into a ball and refrigerate it before rolling again if it has warmed too much.
More Easy Cookie Recipes
These cookies also make the perfect edible cake decorations, so try out this Vanilla Raspberry Cake or this Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Filling if you'd like to get extra busy this Valentine's Day.
Happy Baking, With Love, Kitty
Please leave a star rating and comment below if you tried this recipe! And if you're wondering what to try next, have a look at this Bounty Coconut Cake!
📖 Recipe
Heart Shaped Biscuits
Equipment
- 1x large baking sheet
- heart shaped cookie cutters
Ingredients
- 200 g unsalted butter
- 100 g castor sugar
- 1 egg extra-large
- 1 egg yolk extra-large
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 350 g cake flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Add the softened butter and sugar to a food processor. Pulse until well combined and there are no lumps of butter.
- First, add the whole egg to the creamed mixture with the food processor running, and pulse until combined. Then add the egg yolk and vanilla and pulse again.
- Sift together the flour and salt and add this flour mixture to the egg and butter mixture all at once. Pulse until a dough forms, do not overmix.
- Remove the dough from the food processor, cover it in cling film, and refrigerate for an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 160°C (320°F) and line two large baking trays with parchment paper.
- Remove the chilled dough from the fridge and roll it out on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of ½ cm ( ¼ inch) using a rolling pin.
- Use heart-shaped cookie cutters to shape the dough. Place the cookies onto the prepared baking tray in a single layer.
- Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for 15 minutes or until the cookies are light golden brown. Allow the baked cookies to cool on a cooling rack.
Notes
- Take the butter out of the fridge an hour before making this recipe.
- If the dough is sticking to the countertop while rolling, wrap it up again and place it back in the fridge to firm up.
- Bake a few cookies at first to see if the timing or temperature needs to be changed.
Alex says
These are so good with a cup of tea!