German Heart Biscuits
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About the bake
Gingerbread heart biscuits are traditionally seen at German christmas markets. These beautifully decorated german heart biscuits are incredibly simple to bake and with a batch of royal icing you can let you creative side run wild.
Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan, gas mark 4).
Step 2
Sift the flour, baking powder and spices into a large bowl.
Ingredients for this step
- Allinson's plain white flour (750g)
- Baking powder (1 tsp)
- Ginger (ground) (2 tsp)
- Cinnamon (ground) (2 tsp)
- Mixed spice (1 tsp)
Step 3
Over a gentle heat, stir the butter, salt, sugar, golden syrup and treacle together until smooth. Add to the bowl and mix to a dough.
Ingredients for this step
- Butter (unsalted) (225g)
- Salt (1pinch)
- Billington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar (115g)
- Silver Spoon Golden Syrup (200g)
- Black treacle (150g)
Step 4
Dust the work surface lightly with flour then roll out the dough to about 1 cm thick.
Step 5
Use a heart cookie cutter to stamp out your design and re-roll any excess trimmings to repeat the process. Place each one a baking tray lined with baking parchment.
Step 6
Bake for 12–15 minutes, until the edges are darker brown than the centre. Cool for 10 minutes, then move to a wire rack.
Step 7
Make up the icing as directed on the packet and place in a piping bag with a small nozzle. Decorate each biscuit with your design and then leave to set.
Ingredients for this step
- Royal icing sugar (For decoration)
Ingredients
- 750gAllinson's plain white flour
- 1 tspBaking powder
- 2 tspGinger (ground)
- 2 tspCinnamon (ground)
- 1 tspMixed spice
- 225gButter (unsalted)
- 1pinchSalt
- 115gBillington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar
- 200gSilver Spoon Golden Syrup
- 150gBlack treacle
- 500gSilver Spoon Icing Sugar
For the Decoration
- For decorationRoyal icing sugar