Heart empire biscuits

Accidental Valentine’s day content alert! I made these empire biscuits with Ellis at the weekend, we don’t have the round cookie cutters, the heart is the biggest one we had. I didn’t even remember that Valentine’s Day was coming up til Tuesday (we don’t celebrate), but then it spurred me on to get these blogged quickly for a bit of topicalness.

I should probably explain what empire biscuits usually look like for the non-Scotland based people. They are big round things, you just have the one biscuit like a piece of cake, and they usually have a gummy sweet (fruit pastilles, I think theyr’e called?) or glace cherry on top. The biscuit is basically a shortbread with an egg in it, so slightly less crumbly.

Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

• 225g butter

• 325g plain flour pluis extra for rolling out

• 125g caster sugar

• 1 medium egg

• raspberry jam

• icing sugar

• lemon juice (or other liquid)

Method

1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees

2. Cream the butter and caster sugar

3. Add the egg and whisk until combined

4. Add flour and whisk until fully combined

5. Roll out 1cm thick and cut out an even number of shapes of your choice. The dough is quite sticky so I needed to use lots of flour for the rolling

6. Bake 12-15 minutes until just starting to brown

7. When bisucuits are cooled down, sandwhich together with the jam

8. Make the icing out of the icing sugar and lemon juice

9. Ice the biscuits

Enjoy!