Valentine Sweethearts Recipes

Steps:

• You will also need: one small and one very small heart-shaped cutter.
• Sift the icing sugar in a bowl, add the caster and the almonds, mix well.
• Make a hollow and add the condensed milk, mix with a spoon first then use your hands, mix until smooth.
• Divide in half and add food color to one batch mixing the color well.
• Wrap both in plastic and put in the fridge for half an hour.
• Sprinkle icing sugar on a clean work surface, roll out the pink almond dough until approx 1/2 inch thick.
• Cut out hearts with the larger cutter, re-using and cutting the scraps, use more icing sugar if needed.
• Then use the small cutter to cutout hearts from the middles of the big hearts, I use a blunt stick to push the small hearts out of the cutter.
• Do the same with the un-colored almond dough and try to get the same number of hearts.
• Gently push the small cream hearts in the big pink ones and pink in the cream ones.
• Smooth or flatten if needed.
• Line a baking sheet with some parchment paper and put the hearts on there to dry overnight.
• Store in an airtight tin.