We hardly ever buy biscuits anymore. Mostly because we have decided to reduce snacking! And guess what? We didn't really miss it!

But sometimes, when the snacking pang hits (especially when i'm hungy and looking through the cook book with beautiful pictures), it's nice to have some biscuits or cookies laying around. So I decided, on this occasion that I would make my own "beautiful" biscuits.



These biscuits are called Double Heart Cookies. The dark heart is chocolate and the lighter heart is coffee flavour. The original recipe called for instant latte, but I only had instant mocha, so the colour turned out slightly darker than the original recipe.


Ingredients:
1 packet instant latte
1 1/2 tsp hot water
225g butter
140g caster sugar
1 egg yolk, lightly beaten
250g plain flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp cocoa powder
pinch of salt

Method:

1. Mix latte and hot water to form paste.
2. Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk.
3. Divide mixture into half.
4. Beat in the latte paste into one half. Sift 140g of the flour with salt into mixture and stir until combined. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap in clingfilm and chill in fridge for 30-60 min.
5. Beat the vanilla extract into the other half, then sift together the remaining flour, cocoa powderand salt into the mixture. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap in clingfilm and chill for 30-60min.
6. Preheat the oven to 190C/ Gas mark 5, and line 2 baking sheets with baking paper.
7. Unwrap both doughs and roll out between 2 sheets of baking paper.
8. Cut out heart shapes and lay on baking tray. Cut out 2 smaller heart shapes and switch the colours (imagine from the photos!)
9. Bake in a preheated oven for 10-15min, leave to cool for 5-10min on baking sheet, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

• Try to make the cookies slightly thinner, it tastes so good when it's crispy.
• I used mocha instead of latte, taste good anyhow.
• It's kind of a hassle but look at them, they're just so pretty!
• Do cool them on a wire rack to make sure they crisp up instead of turn soggy on cooling.
• they keep well in an air tight jar for a few days.. that is if they last with out being eaten first!
• these cookies are actually HUGE but I also used a huge mug, hence they ended up looking normal sized.
• a 7 inch heart shaped cutter can get you approx 30 biscuits.