Heart-shaped jammy biscuits
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Recipe by Nick Coffer, author of “My Daddy Cooks - 100 fresh new recipes for the whole family” published by Hodder & Stoughton
These easy jam heart biscuits are perfect for baking with kids for Valentine’s Day or giving to mum on Mother’s Day...
- Prep Time 40 mins
- Cook Time 15 mins
- Serves 8+
- Difficulty Level Easy
Preparation
- Total Time 55 mins
- Preparation Time 40 mins
- Cooking Time 15 mins
- 250g butter (at room temperature)
- 100g caster sugar
- 1 lemon (for its zest), grated
- 350g plain flour
- 2 tbsp milk
- 100g raspberry jam (seedless)
- icing sugar (to dust)
- Cream the softened butter, caster sugar and lemon zest until light and fluffy
- Sieve in the flour and add the milk
- Bring the dough together with your hands into a ball
- Wrap the dough in cling-film and chill for 30 minutes
- In the meantime, line a couple of baking trays with baking paper and preheat the oven to 180'C/Gas mark 4
- Sprinkle some extra flour onto a board and roll out half of the dough until it is 3mm in thickness
- Using the large heart-shaped cutter, cut out as many biscuits as you can
- Squeeze any leftover dough back into a ball, roll and cut out some more hearts
- Take the second half of dough, cut out some more heart shapes and this time, cut smaller hearts in the middle of the larger hearts
- Repeat until all the dough is used
- Transfer the biscuits onto the lined tray and bake, in two batches, if necessary, for 12 minutes
- Once they are a light golden colour (they should be soft to the touch) take them out and put them on a wire rack to cool
- When cool, spread jam onto the whole biscuit shapes and place a cut-out heart shape on top, pressing down gently
- Dust with icing sugar if you like
You will need
2 heart-shaped cookie cutters – 1 smaller than the other
Baking trays – This convenient set comes with three different sized trays that are rust-free with a mirror finish. See more details here at Amazon.
Parchment paper – This roll has 10 metres of ready to use baking parchment. See more details here at Amazon.
Cooling rack – This one by Tala measures 40cm x 25cm and is ideal for cakes and biscuits. Find it here at Amazon.
Tips
Children love making biscuits, including rolling the dough, cutting out the shapes and in the case of these biscuits, adding the jam filling, too. Put them in a pretty box lined with tissue paper and give them as a gift for Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day.
If you want your biscuits to look extra special, add heart-shaped cake sprinkles and edible glitter to the jammy section.
If you don't have two heart-shaped cookie cutters, use a round cutter to make the biscuit shape and a small heart cutter to create the shape in the middle – a bit like a homemade Jammie Dodger.
This is a shortbread-style recipe and you can easily adapt it for other times of the year and special occasions. You could use star-shaped cookie cutters or Christmas tree-shaped cutters for a Christmas biscuit for example.
This recipe makes about 24 biscuits/12 sandwiched together.
Variations
While this recipe uses raspberry jam, you can use strawberry, blackcurrant, lemon curd or any other jam variety you like.
These biscuits have a very light lemony flavour. If you don't have a lemon, you can leave it out and they'll taste just as good. You could also add a drop of vanilla essence for a slightly sweeter flavour.
To give your biscuits a chocolately twist, replace the jam with a chocolate spread such as Nutella.
To make this recipe vegan, replace the butter with a plant-based spread and use plant milk instead of cow's milk.
To make this recipe gluten-free use a gluten-free plain flour.
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Reviews
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4 ratingsRate this recipe
Polly L(45)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Tastier than shop-bought jammy dodgers!
Guest
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
These were so easy to make and they are adorable!
Samantha E(219)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
These were so easy to make and were delicious!
Guest
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4
Made these today with my kids. They really enjoyed it and was really easy to follow. We made half with jam and half with chocolate spread. Also cooked the cut out hearts for an extra treat. Kids loved them.