Love bug biscuits

Ingredients

• 100 g butter chilled cubed
• 1  egg yolk 
• 20 servings purple gel food coloring black
• 500 g chocolate icing 
• 100 g powdered sugar 
• 1 ball edible gold dust 
• 175 g flour plain
• 20 servings food coloring red
• 1 tsp vanilla extract 
• 20 servings frangelico heart-shaped
• 20 servings frangelico heart-shaped

Equipment

• food processor
• oven
• wire rack

Directions

1. Put the flour, butter, sugar, vanillaand egg yolk in a food processor.Dribble in 1 tbsp water and blitz untilthe mixture comes together to forma dough. Tip onto a work surface and knead briefly to bring together, thenwrap in cling film and chill for 20 mins.
2. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas
3. Roll out the dough to the thickness of a £1coin. Use your 8cm heart cutter to stampout heart shapes – you’ll have to re-rollthe trimmings to make 20 biscuits.
4. Put thehearts on 2 baking trays and bake for12 mins, swapping the trays over halfwaythrough, until pale golden and crisp.Leave to cool on a wire rack.Dye your lump of icing with red foodcolouring and wrap in cling film untilready to roll.
5. Mix the icing sugar withenough water to make a thick icing.Dye the icing with the black foodcolouring.
6. Pour the icing into a pipingbag with a small plain nozzle attached(or use a small sandwich bag and snip offthe corner).
7. Roll out the red icing to 3mmthick and use your 6cmcutter to stamp outhearts. Stick onto thebiscuits with a littleof the black icing.Use the black icing togive your love bug a head at the pointy end, draw a line downthe centre to give it wings, then addspots. Stick 2 pearly balls onto eachlove bug’s head, then leave to set ona wire rack. You can pack your lovebugs into boxes or cellophane bagsto give as gifts for Valentine’s Day.