If you have a tiny cookie cutter, and time mind you, if you cut out 5 tiny hearts, then barely overlap them into a round flower (see below) pressing down gently and overlapping as below, it makes a pretty pansy flower. After making the raw dough flower, I chill in the fridge til the dough is cold and firm again. Then bake, then cool. Once cool, then I take edible white and pale bright colored powdered sugar glaze (powdered sugar, little lemon or orange juice) or similar and "paint" the color onto the flower petal. Once dry, then add details with a darker color of glaze or cake gel.
Was in a hurry, making butter shortbreads for a boozy English tea (recipe on my YT add it here when time). Mix together soft butter, white sugar, and flour. Mush, literally yes mush, all this into a brownie pan in one layer to the edges, leaving the unsmooth surface like it is. Take a fork and add the holes, then take a knife and cut into the size pieces you´d like by just marking the lines. Bake in a preheated oven.
This is the very quick version, just mixed, mushed into a pan, marked, cooked, cooled, cut apart, put on a serving dish, and set out on the table.
For lemon shortbreads, add some fresh lemon juice. I made lemon shortbreads.
When slightly cool, take a spatula and finish dividing the pieces, then when cool, take out the cookies.
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Typical fancy English tea. A "typical" English tea might be just tea with one type of biscuit (cookie), or one type of sandwich, such as cold sliced roast beef from the Sunday leftover roast. And the sandwiches would not be fancy like this with the crusts cut off. I usually use homemade bread, or rustic bakery bread, and do not slice off the edges or crusts. But I like all the pretty cups, saucers etc. Usually, I use my plain brown Norwegian flint stone cups, or mismatched floral English cups and saucers. Sometimes I use my Grandma´s German china with tiny gold roses handpainted on the edges. And I like T´s mother´s miscellaneous endless different choices of cups and saucers with different florals or patterns. My fave is a tiny blue and white pattern, and I like it for hot cocoas.
Below is my quick version of a English Tea, with teas, and some wine and Prosecco (not shown)
Quickly stopped off at the local shoppes, got some roses half plus off, put them quickly in a old container with water. They´re actually quite pretty...and the "vase" doesn´t tip over easily.
