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Ingredients:

Biscuits:

1 cup sugar

2 cups butter

3 cups flour

Royal Icing:

1 egg white

1 cup sifted icing sugar

Red food colouring

Method:

Cream the butter and sugar together. Once light and fluffy beat in the flour and bring together as a dough.

Place dough in fridge to rest for at least half an hour.

Roll the dough on a floured surface to about 5mm thick. Using your favourite <3 shaped cookie cutters(can be different shapes and sizes), cut out shapes and place on a greased baking slide. Bake at 180°C for 8-10 minutes until going golden on the edges. Remove from oven and allow to cool.

In the mean time, whisk the icing sugar into the egg white bit by bit, to make a thick pipe-able icing. Divide the mixture in half and colour on half red.

Place some of the icing into a piping bag. Pipe the thick icing around the edges of the hearts, and allow them the dry.

Now thin down the rest of the icing with a little water with a little water, to a pouring consistency. Put the runny icing into a piping bay and carefully fill in the out lined hearts.  Pipe dots of the thicker icing into the opposite colours and allow them to set for a few hours.