ROSE COOKIES FOR JAN

First I must apologise to Jan, I only just discovered that you had requested this recipe and I do hope that it is not too late, well here it is at last darling just for you. x

ROSIE HEARTS

4 oz plain flour
3 oz caster sugar
1 egg yolk
2 oz butter softened
half a teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 teaspoons of milk
For the topping

A drop of pink food colouring or rose syrup
Rose water
4 oz Icing sugar
Edible sugar balls or pink glitter sugar


1 cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla essence until smooth and then add the flour and milk and mix to a firm paste, and allow to chill for thirty minutes.

2 Pre heat the oven to 180oC. Grease two baking sheets and them roll out the chilled dough to a thickness of a quarter of an inch then cut in to heart shapes. Keep on re-kneading and rolling the left over scraps of dough until it is all used up then bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes.

3 When the cookies are just beginning to brown at the edges remove from the oven and allow to cool completely on the trays before removing them to a wire rack with a palette knife.

4 In a bowl mix the icing sugar with enough rose water to make a soft icing the add the food colouring. If red is used the smallest dab on the tip of a cocktail stick will be sufficient.
Drizzle or pipe the icing on to the hearts ans sprinkle with sugar balls or glitter sugar while the icing is still wet. These ingredients will make about fifteen cookies. Love Avie.x