{"id":1170,"date":"2016-02-01T14:39:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.snapfish.co.uk\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:13:44","slug":"valentines-inspiration-the-perfect-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/valentines-inspiration-the-perfect-pair\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Inspiration &#8211; The Perfect Pair &#x1f60d;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Valentine&#8217;s Day is fast approaching, we &nbsp;thought we&#8217;d share the love with some&nbsp;Valentine&#8217;s inspiration.&nbsp;Follow these 10 simple steps to create delicious biscuits your Valentine will love:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.snapfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/edited-11.jpg\" alt=\"Valentines inspiration\" class=\"wp-image-1107\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span><b>Ingredients for biscuits&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span>100g soft unsalted butter<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span>100g caster sugar<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span>1 medium free-range egg (lightly beaten)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span>275g plain flour<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span> 1tsp vanilla<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span><strong>Ingredients for&nbsp;decorating&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span>225g icing sugar<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2-3tbsp water<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span>3-4&nbsp;drops of food colouring<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fun decorations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Method<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Preheat your oven to 190C \/ 375F \/Gas 5. Line a baking tray with greaseproof&nbsp;paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Cream the sugar and butter together in a bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Gradually beat in the vanilla extract and egg, until the mixture is well combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Sift the flour into the mixture, and stir until it comes&nbsp;together as a dough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Lightly flour your work surface and roll out the dough to a thickness of around 1cm.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.snapfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0521.jpg\" alt=\"Valentine's inspiration\" class=\"wp-image-1110\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Use your heart shaped biscuit cutters to cut biscuit out of the dough and place carefully onto your baking tray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. Bake your biscuits in the oven for 8-10 minutes, or until pale golden brown.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.snapfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0530.jpg\" alt=\"Valentine's inspiration\" class=\"wp-image-1111\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8. Set your biscuits on a cooling rack for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9. Once your biscuits are cool enough to decorate; make the icing. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl, and gradually add the water (you do not want your icing too runny). Mix in your food colouring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10. Use a knife to spread the icing onto the biscuits, and have fun decorating with your Valentines initials, love hearts, 100&#8217;s and 1000&#8217;s &#8211; you choose !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TOP TIP: Keep adding drops of food colouring to your icing, so you have a range of different shades.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.snapfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0554.jpg\" alt=\"Valentine's inspiration\" class=\"wp-image-1115\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To create&nbsp;the perfect paid of presents, make your Valentine a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapfish.co.uk\/photo-mugs\" target=\"_blank\" >personalised photo mug<\/a>, so once they&#8217;ve eaten the biscuits they have a gift&nbsp;that keeps on giving!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapfish.co.uk\/photo-mugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.snapfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/valentines-mug.jpg\" alt=\"Valentine's inspiration\" class=\"wp-image-1123\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>What did you create on Snapfish? Share it with us on social media! You can tag us with @snapfishuk in your photos on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/snapfishuk\" target=\"_blank\" >Instagram<\/a> <span>or<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/snapfishuk\" target=\"_blank\" >Facebook<\/a> <span>or use the hashtag #snapfishuk. Don\u2019t forget to follow us on<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/snapfishuk\" target=\"_blank\" >YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/snapfishuk\" target=\"_blank\" >Twitter<\/a> <span>and<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/snapfishuk\" target=\"_blank\" >Pinterest<\/a><span>, too. We love seeing what you create.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Valentine&#8217;s Day is fast approaching, we &nbsp;thought we&#8217;d share the love with some&nbsp;Valentine&#8217;s inspiration.&nbsp;Follow these 10 simple steps to create delicious biscuits your Valentine will love:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":9209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1974,1986,1980],"tags":[600,423,424],"blog_region":[2397],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mugs-drinkware","category-photo-gifts","category-valentines-day","tag-personalised-photo-mugs","tag-valentine-gifts","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54297,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/54297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"blog_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapfish.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_region?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}