Valentine's Shortbread with Raspberry & Rosemary Jam
 
 
Because puns are the real point of Valentine's day.
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Ingredients
  • 9 oz (250g) butter
  • 1 cup (160g) icing sugar
  • 1½ cups (225g) plain flour
  • ½ cup (75g) cornflour (cornstarch)
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
  • ⅔ cup (210g) raspberry jam
  • zest of ½ lemon
  • 1 tsp finely chopped rosemary leaves
Instructions
  1. Place the butter, icing sugar, plain flour, cornstarch and vanilla into the bowl of a food processor.
  2. Process in short bursts until the dough comes together.
  3. Split the dough into two and wrap one in plastic and put it in the fridge.
  4. Roll the other piece of dough out between two pieces of plastic wrap to ¼in ½ cm and put it in the freezer for 15 minutes.
  5. Once the freezer dough is nice and firm, cut out your desired message/shapes and place them back in the freezer.
  6. Put the oven on to preheat to 375F/180C.
  7. Take the dough scraps, and the other half of the dough from the fridge, and press them into a lined 12 by8 inch (20 by 30cm).
  8. Mix together the jam, lemon zest and rosemary, and spread on top of the pressed out dough.
  9. Arrange your frozen dough cut-outs on top of the jam, and bake the whole thing for 20-25 minutes or until a light golden brown.
  10. Let it cool completely in the tin, before giving to your boyfriend, girlfriend, priest, sister, gardener, therapist, grandad, bikini waxer.
Recipe by The Sugar Hit at http://www.thesugarhit.com/2014/02/valentines-shortbread-with-raspberry-rosemary-jam.html