You may be looking for a simple recipe to celebrate Valentine's Day without breaking the budget.

We've got the answer with these Jammy Heart Cookies, which are fun to make and quite easy to digest.

Here is the recipe and we've even got an easy-to-follow step-by-step photo montage to help you out.

Jammy Heart Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter (4 oz)
3/4 cup icing sugar (6 oz)
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups self-raising flour (10 oz)

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and icing sugar. Beat in the egg, vanilla and mix well.

2. Gradually blend flour into the butter mixture and then divide the dough into thirds and shape into balls.

3. Roll out the dough into desired thickness (about 1/4 inch thick is good) on a lightly floured surface. For each heart cookie, cut out 2 three-inch rounds. Cut the centre of one of the rounds with a small 1 1/2 inch heart cutter.

4. Place each piece separately on an ungreased cookie sheet, 1-2 inches apart. Bake in a pre-heated 350 F or 175 C oven until lightly browned. Don't overcook. Check after about 6-8 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Spread the bottom layer with jam of your choice (strawberry is our choice) and place an open-centred cookie on top. Serve the small hearts as separate cookies.

Makes about 8 heart cookies and lots of little ones.

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