Valentine Passionfruit Heart Biscuits

   
                                                        Passionfruit Hearts ♥


Here's a great little cookie/biscuit dough recipe.  The dough keeps it's shape whilst baking so it's perfect for use with your cookie cutters for any kind of design.  

I've filled these little hearts with  a Passionfruit  filling...couldn't be better for a Valentine's treat.♥

Recipe taken from my Facebook notes:-

Basic Biscuit Dough. for the Passionfruit biscuits, alternative fillings at the bottom of the note 

this basic dough is so good as it retains it's shape whilst baking

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4oz/ 125g/half a cup of butter

2oz/60g quarter cup caster sugar

1 beaten egg

7oz/220g/1 & 3/4cups plain flour

1oz/30g/3tbsp cornflour/cornstarch

half a tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

grated rind of half a lemon OR few drops of vanilla  depending on the biscuit being made

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preheat oven to 180c/350f/gas 4

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Grease 3 baking sheets

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cream the butter & sugar

add the egg & flavouring beat

add the sifted flour, salt & baking powder

mix together & form into a ball & it's ready to roll out.

Cut out using 7.5cm/3" cutters which ever shape you want. 

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this should make about 48 biscuits in total or 24 if you're using them as a base & top.

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Bake for around 15 mins until light golden brown.

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For Passion Fruit Cream

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2oz/60g/quarter cup of unsalted butter

4oz/125g/3/4cup sifted icing sugar

the pulp of 4 small passion fruit passed through a sieve to remove the seeds

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just beat these ingredients together

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sandwich the biscuits together

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Dust with icing sugar

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Vanilla Filling

60g/ 2 oz/ qurater cup unsalted butter

1 egg yolk

125g/4oz/3/4 cup icing sugar

few drops of vanilla extract

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just beat together

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Lemon filling (omit the vanilla from the biscuit recipe and add a tsp grated lemon zest)

omit the vanilla from the vanilla filling recipe, add 3 tsp lemon juice and the zest from a lemon

beat together.