Heart Jam Biscuits

I found this recipe on the ASDA recipe website a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to try it ever since. 

Makes 6
Ready in 2 hours
Price per biscuit 10p

Ingredients (can easily be doubled as needed):

55g butter, softened
30g caster sugar
¼tsp vanilla extract
85g plain flour, sifted, plus extra for rolling
40g white chocolate, chopped
Icing sugar, for dusting
About 2tbsp raspberry jam (preferably seedless)

Method

1. Beat the butter, caster sugar, vanilla and a pinch of salt until combined. Stir in the flour, then bring the dough together with your hands. If the dough is very soft, wrap in clingfilm and chill for 30 minutes.
2. Line two baking trays with baking paper. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to about 4mm thickness. Cut out 12 heart shapes with a 6cm cookie cutter. Put them on the baking sheet. Cut out heart centres from six of the dough hearts with a smaller heart-shaped cookie cutter (you can bake these and serve as mini-biscuits). Chill both baking trays for 10 minutes in the freezer.

 3. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Bake the shortbread until golden round the edges (9-10   minutes for the cut-out hearts and 11-12 minutes for the solid ones). Cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

4. Melt the white chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of warm water, stirring frequently. Set aside for 10-20 minutes to cool and thicken. Dust the cut-out cookies with icing sugar.
5. When cool, spread ½tbsp white chocolate over each solid white heart cookie, leaving a border round the edge. Put a blob of jam in the centre of each. Sandwich the cookies with the sugar-dusted tops and add a little extra jam in the cut-out centre, if needed. Chill for 10-20 minutes or until the chocolate has set, then store in a cool place.

Tips and review:

•    I found it fiddly to put the cut out heart outlines on top of the large hearts. So I think next time I will just do heart sandwiches, small and large which is what I did with the left over biscuits anyway.
• These biscuits would also be great just on their own, or perhaps dipped in chocolate for their decoration