Light,buttery and topped with natural icing – cookies

Love heart cookies can be perfect as gifts.  You can also use lollipop sticks to make cookie pops with this recipe

Ingredients

• Castor sugar – 1 1/2 cups
• Unsalted butter – 1 cup
• Egg – 1
• Vanilla extract – 2 tsp
• Plain flour – 2 1/2 cups
• Baking powder – 1 tsp
• Salt – 1/2 tsp
• glucose syrup – 2 tbsp
• Milk – 2 tbsp

Food coloring of your choice

For the frosting 

• Beet juice – 1 tbs
• Butter – 1/2 cup
• Powdered sugar – 2 cups

Method

• Beat the cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy.  Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat it well again
• Add flour,baking powder and salt and mix well
• Divide the dough into balls.Cover in cling film and refrigerator for one hour
• Preheat the oven to 190degree C.  Line a baking sheet with baking paper and set aside
• Roll the disks to 1/2 cm thickness and cut with a heart shaped cookie cutter
• Place them on the tray and bake for 15 minutes or until pale golden in colour.  Transfer the cookies onto the racks to cool
• To make the frosting cream the butter until light and fluffy.  Mix in the powdered sugar, and the beet juice until you get the desired colour and consistency
• Cover the cookies with the glaze