Recipe Eight: 'Off With Their Head" Cookies

I first made these cookies for our family cafe and expected, like other batches of cookies they would last us 2 days...they lasted 3 hours. 

Beautiful food sells and although beautiful the original recipe never seemed to taste as good as it looked.

 Here is my slightly tweaked version.

You'll need:

1.5 cups of Plain Flour

3/4 of a cup of Almond Meal

1/2 a cup of pure Icing Sugar

1 Egg

1 Tablespoon of Milk

125gm of Butter (Chilled)

100gms dark Chocolate Chips

1/4 cup of Strawberry Jam

2 Tablespoons of Water

Preheat your oven to 180C

You're going to want to put all of those dry ingredients into your food processor along with the chopped, chilled butter and whiz until it looks like breadcrumbs.

Then pop in your milk and egg and whiz again until it starts to come together like this:

Now knead the dough until it forms a smooth disk, wrap and rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Roll out your dough and cut out as many large hearts as you can fit.

Now cut smaller hearts from the center of half of your larger hearts and bake for 8-10 minutes until JUST before they begin to turn brown...it happens quickly so keep and eye out.

Once your shapes are baked and cooled separate the hearts with the middle cut out on a
piece of baking paper.
 Melt your chocolate and pour into a zip-loc bag.

Snip the corner of the bag and drizzle the chocolate over the hearts with the cut outs.

Once the chocolate has set melt your jam and water together.

If you wish you can then sieve out the seeds but I leave them!

 Spread a little on the solid hearts and then place one of the chocolate covered hearts on the top.

Once all of your hearts are stuck together spoon in one tablespoon of the melted jam mix into the centre of each cookie.

Leave to set and then you're done!

xx