Jammy heart biscuits
It’s almost Valentine’s Day so I thought we should do some love themed baking with these jammy heart biscuits. I’d seen various versions of jammy heart biscuits, which is essentially a jammy dodger but wanted to make sure it was easy enough for the kids to help with. This biscuit recipe is really nice and simple with only a few ingredients and has lots of opportunities for wee helpers to get involved. And getting the jam heart in the middle is also just a simple step of cutting out the heart shape before baking and sandwiching it together with jam in the middle.
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 30 minutes + 15 minutes baking
Serves: 10 biscuits (approx)
Ingredients
80g (1/3 cup) caster sugar
160g (2/3 cup) unsalted butter, softened
240g (2 cups) plain / all-purpose flour
Jam
how to make jammy heart biscuits
Preheat your oven to 180C / 350F and line your baking trays (2 or 3) with baking paper
Mix the butter and sugar together
Get your kids to measure out the sugar (80g) and butter (160g) and pop them in a large mixing bowl. If your butter isn’t soft, blast it in the microwave for a few seconds before adding to your bowl otherwise it’ll be hard to mix.
Use some wooden spoons and give it a good mix until it’s well blended. If you want you could use a hand held mixer or freestanding mixer.
Make the biscuit dough
Measure the flour (240g) then add it to your bowl.
Mix it together until it is thoroughly mixed and a dough starts to form. You could use your spoons for this, or get your hands dirty. Tip your mixture out on to your work surface. Knead it together until it forms a ball. Then chill it in the fridge for 15 minutes.
Make your jammy heart biscuits
Get your kids to help roll your dough out so it is about half a cm thick. We put it between two sheets of baking paper to stop it sticking.
Cut out your biscuits using a round cutter. Using a smaller heart shaped cutter cut out the centre of half of your biscuits. Pop them on your baking trays. Re-roll the scraps and cut out more biscuits until you’ve used all your dough.
Sprinkle your biscuits with a little caster sugar.
Bake your biscuits
Pop your jammy heart biscuits in the oven for around 15 minutes. They’re done when they are turning golden brown.
Remove them from the oven, leave to cool on the trays for a few minutes before moving to a wire rack to cool completely.
Form your jammy heart biscuits
Spoon a little jam (about 2 tbsp) into a dish or pan and either warm in the microwave or on the cooker until has softened a little. This will make it a lot easier to spread.
Get your kids to help you spread jam on to the top of each ‘full’ biscuit. Then make a sandwich by placing the heart cut out biscuit on top.
Enjoy!
Jammy heart biscuits
Ingredients
- 80 g caster sugar
- 160 g butter unsalted
- 240 g plain flour
- Jam
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 180C/ 170C Fan and line a baking tray with baking paper
Mix the butter and sugar together
- Measure the sugar and butter and add them to a large mixing bowl. Using some wooden spoons, (or your mixer) give them a good mix until they are well combined.
Make the biscuit dough
- Add the flour to your bowl, then using your hands mix it up then bring it together until it forms a nice dough. Wrap it in cling film and pop it in the fridge for 15 minutes.
Make the jammy heart biscuits
- Roll the dough out until it is around half a cm thick. Cut out biscuits using a round cutter. Then using a smaller heart shaped cutter, cut out the middle of half your biscuits.
- Re-roll your dough and repeat until you have used all the dough up.
Bake your biscuits
- Pop your biscuits in the oven for 12-15 minutes. They're donw when they are starting to turn golden brown. Remove them from the oven and leave to cool.
Form your biscuits
- Spoon a little jam on to each round biscuit and spread out, then sandwich it in by placing a a heart shaped biscuit on top.
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I absolutely love these, and I know my nephews are going to love them too! We’re going to bake them this weekend for their Mummy for Valentines. Thank you for sharing #CookBlogShare
Thanks, I hope you all enjoy them!
These look delicious – loving the photos of the little ones helping too!
Thanks. They’re really tasty and a fun one for kids to try!
I love jammy dodgers with a nice cup of tea. Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks, me too!
The look perfect I adore jammy dodgers, Thank you for linking to #CookBlogShare.
They’re a relatively recent discovery for me – I don’t know what i was doing as a child, never to have tried one. I was missing out!
I love these jammy heart tarts. They are such a good valentines craft to do with littles…. and yummy too!
Thank you for linking to #ThursdayTeam
Thanks! My kids really enjoyed making them, (and I enjoyed eating them!)
I do love a jammy dodger and these ones look great, yum!
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They taste just like remember jammy dodgers although it’s been a while since I last had one!
These are an absolute fave for me! I wish I could eat gluten, my kid could have egg and we could make these yummy heart cookies. I can smell them cooking! Delicious! #familyfun xo
oh no! I’m sure they’d work with a different biscuit base – my kids loved sandwiching the two bits together with jam.