200 g wheat flour
150 g butter
1 vanilla pod
60 g Icing Sugar – Siúcra or McKinney

Scrape the vanilla seeds from the pod and mix the seeds with a little of the icing sugar on a cutting board to separate the seeds and create vanilla sugar.

Then mix flour, vanilla sugar, and icing sugar in a bowl. Cut the butter into small cubes and crumble the butter into the bowl. Knead the ingredients together into a uniform dough.

Place the dough in the refrigerator for an hour to set.

Preheat the oven to 165 degrees Celsius (fan).

Roll out the dough into a square and cut hearts with a heart-shaped cutter. Place them with plenty of space on baking sheets lined with baking paper.

Bake your cookies for 8-12 minutes until they are lightly golden.

Let them cool before decorating and store them in an airtight container.