Title: Cherry Hearts
Category: Happy
Blog Entry: Cherry Hearts
Ingredients:
200g ( 8oz ) plain flour
100g ( 4oz) ground Hazelnuts
100g ( 4oz) powder sugar
125 ( 5oz) cold unsalted butter cut into cubes
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp cocoa
1 egg (medium)
1 jar of cherry jam
Directions:
1. sift flour, cinnamon, cocoa, sugar into a bowl
mix in the ground hazelnuts
2. rub in the cold butter until the mixture resembles bread crumbs
3. knead in the egg
4. wrap in cling film and place into the fridge for 1 hour
5. roll out and cut out heart shapes, cutting smaller hearts into half of them
6. bake at 200c for 10-12 minutes
7. leave to cool on a baking rack
8. heat the jam gently and pass through a sieve
9. brush on the warm jam and place the centre cut out hearts on top
10. dust with powder sugar
11. with a spoon add more warm jam into the heart opening
12. leave to set.
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