Sweetheart Cookies - Real Recipes from Mums

I made these Sweetheart Cookies for afternoon tea for my Mum and Dad’s 40th Wedding anniversary … but they would be perfect for anytime. A buttery biscuit with a sweet jam centre.

Ingredients (makes 15 cookies)

175g Plain flour
100g Chilled butter, cubed
85g Icing sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 Egg yolk
1/4 -1/2 cup Raspberry or strawberry jam
Additional icing sugar to dust cookies with

Method

Put the flour, butter, sugar, vanilla and egg yolk in a food processor. Dribble in 1 TBS water, and blitz until the mix comes together to form a dough.
Place onto a work surface, and knead briefly to bring together, then wrap in cling wrap, and chill for 20 minutes. ( If mix is too sticky, add more flour until it comes together a bit more)
Once chilled, roll out on a floured surface and cut 30 heart shapes. Using a smaller heart cutter, cut a small heart in the middle of 15 of the biscuits
Bake in a moderate oven for approx. 12 minutes, or until light golden brown.
When completely cool, spread some jam on the complete halves of the hearts leaving a small border around the edge.
Place all the heart cookies that have the middle cut out onto a separate tray and dust with icing sugar.
Carefully place a heart with the middle cut out on top of the jam cookie and lightly press together.

Notes

All the little hearts you have left over from cutting out the centres make cute little cookies for the kids as they are a good little size for them. These keep in an airtight container for 3 days

58 Comments

- - mom486197 said
  - 16 Feb 2023
    10:05 am
These are beautifully present and a perfect treat for someone special.

- - meedee said
  - 06 Feb 2023
    12:01 pm
These really do look so amazing

- - Frankiielot said
  - 06 Apr 2022
    9:10 pm
Hubby is a big jam fan so will love these.
They look so pretty!
Thank you for sharing.

- - mum300445 said
  - 06 Apr 2022
    10:37 am
These look so beautiful! Could use a Easter egg cut out and different coloured jams for a fun Easter biscuit twist! These look so delicious!

- - mom103778 said
  - 17 Jan 2022
    11:11 am
I would love to make some of these Sweetheart Cookies for Valentines day.

- - Ellen said
  - 11 Feb 2021
    8:36 am
They are cute Mum to Archer !

- - Kylie said
  - 19 Oct 2020
    9:10 am
Perfect for Valentine’s Day

- - LeeLee said
  - 27 May 2020
    9:30 pm
These would be so sweet for valentines day

- - rnash02 said
  - 14 Apr 2020
    8:51 pm
Cute

- - Ellen said
  - 13 Aug 2019
    7:48 am
Heart shaped cookies and pancakes are fun. I even made heart shaped pie’s for my son’s birthday.

- - mom101628 said
  - 16 May 2019
    11:12 pm
Lovely for Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day or as you did for a 40th Anniversary. Easy to do and thank you so much for sharing.

- - ella12 said
  - 15 May 2019
    4:39 pm
They look yummy and so effective.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 14 May 2019
    7:27 am
Love the look of these and they are so delicious too.

- - rovermum said
  - 13 May 2019
    10:00 am
Love hearts are my think and I just love these. Like jam drops, they look delicious and I’d love them as a morning or afternoon tea treat.

- - mom103920 said
  - 12 May 2019
    8:44 pm
These look sweet. I’ve tried ‘glass’ cookies, where the cutout jam area is cooked with the biscuit for the colour contrast – this looks much easier and cleaner!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 12 May 2019
    3:44 pm
Yum, they look prefect for an afternoon tea

- - Nat213 said
  - 08 May 2019
    12:25 pm
These look great! I will be sure to make them for mother’s day!

- - serotonin said
  - 08 May 2019
    12:08 pm
I like the sound of buttery, mmmm. Thanks for sharing!

- - mom319923 said
  - 06 May 2019
    2:03 pm
How gorgeous and not many ingredients! Yay!

- - mom81879 said
  - 06 May 2019
    11:49 am
These really are delicious. I mixed up a batch just last week. They didn’t last long