Heart cookies for Mother’s Day

preparation

1. 1

   Combine the dough ingredients in a mixing bowl and knead them together

2. 2

   Wrap half the dough in cling film and put it in the fridge

3. 3

   Add a little red food colouring to the other half of the dough and knead it well before also putting it in the fridge for 30 min

4. 4

   Flour the worktop, roll out the dough to about 3 mm thick and cut out dough hearts with a heart cutter. Be careful not to use too much flour

5. 5

   Then lay the cut-out dough hearts on a paper-lined tray

6. 6

   Then preheat the oven to 170 °C fan and bake the hearts for about 10–12 minutes

7. 7

   While the hearts cool, separate the egg white from one egg

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   Then brush the finished cookies with egg white and decorate them with a few sugar sprinkles

9. 9

   That way you make your mum a sweet Mother’s Day gift