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title: "Pink glitter heart cookies"
url: https://darlinglovelylife.com/2014/05/pink-glitter-heart-cookies/
description: "Four of my favourite words in one delightful sentence – these pink glitter heart cookies are so easy to make and are delicious treats for kids and big kids alike!…"
published: 2014-05-28
updated: 2014-05-28
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# Pink glitter heart cookies

Published 2014-05-28

[Making & baking](https://darlinglovelylife.com/category/making-baking/)

28 May 2014 · by Sara - Darling Lovely Life editor · filed under [how to](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [iced cookies](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [recipes](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [uk baking blog](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/)

Four of my favourite words in one delightful sentence – these pink glitter heart cookies are so easy to make and are delicious treats for kids and big kids alike! If you don’t have a particularly sweet tooth, you can skip the icing and serve the biscuits alongside tea or coffee when you have guests!

## You will need

♥ A clean surface / chopping board
 ♥ A rolling pin
 ♥ A heart-shaped cookie cutter
 ♥ A sieve
 ♥ A stand or hand mixer
 ♥ Grease-proof baking paper
 ♥ Baking trays
 ♥ 100g salted, softened butter
 ♥ 100g caster sugar
 ♥ One large, free-range egg
 ♥ 275g plain flour
 ♥ One teaspoon of vanilla extract and (for the icing)
 ♥ 400g icing sugar
 ♥ 4 full tablespoons of room temperature water
 ♥ Pink food colouring
 ♥ Edible glitter

## Step one

Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5 and line a few baking trays with grease-proof paper. The recipe makes quite a few cookies depending on the size of your cutter, so be prepared to go through a few batches. Cream the butter and caster sugar together until it’s light and fluffy.

## Step two

Beat the egg and add it in to the sugar and butter, along with the vanilla essence. Beat until the mixture looks like this:

## Step three

Sift in the flour and beat thoroughly. Be tenacious about this and resist the temptation to add more liquid as you’ll end up with a runny nightmare. Your mixture may look sandy for a while but if you keep it up, it will eventually come together and start to look like a dough. Phew.

## Step four

Flour a clean surface or chopping board and your rolling pin, and roll out your dough so that it’s around a centimetre thick.

## Step five

Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut as many shapes as you can and space them an inch or so apart on a lined baking tray.

## Step six

Bake for approx 10 minutes until they are cooked with a slight golden brown colour. They should look like this:

## Step seven

If you’re not a fan of icing, you can leave the cookies plain (trust me, they taste just as good, especially with a cuppa) but if you’re not ready for the fun to end, then wait for the cookies to cool and sift the icing sugar into a large bowl. You can then carefully add in water and food colouring until the icing is the desired colour and consistency.

Pink icing – Pink glitter heart cookies recipe – Darling Lovely Life blog

## Step eight

Ice your cookies – you’ll probably need a spoon and a knife for this. Don’t worry if you make a big mess, it’s part of the fun. Then sprinkle with glitter et voila: pink glitter heart cookies!

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