Valentines Day

Tomorrow is Valentines day.  So besides the other things I have mentioned we will be doing (sailing boats and planting seeds) we need to do some lovey dovey stuff.  Things are piling up to do...this is not a bad thing!  So far the plan is to bake heart cookies and maybe some hand printing in the shape of a heart.

We have done this before, so here is the photo.  This is honestly the best recipe for soft sugar cookies out there.  This time I might not do the pink icing and sprinkles just to cut down on the sugar content, but they are pretty and I got the idea from a blog called "a spoonful of sugar"

Sugar Cookie Recipe

2 and half cups flour
2 tsp cornflour
1 and half tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
149 g butter softened
1 cup sugar
1 Large egg
1 Large egg white
2 tsp vanilla essence

Mix butter and sugar, add eggs and vanilla.  Add dry ingredients slowly.  Refrigerate for 1 and half hours.  Roll and cut out in shape of hearts.  Bake at 180 deg C for 8-11 mins ...not till brown, but still pale.  The icing was made from icing sugar, dash of milk, knob of butter and a small drop of red food colouring.