Sugar Love Heart Wedding Favours
These Love Heart Sugar Cubes make an inexpensive wedding favour and are so pretty and decorativ
These Love Heart Sugar Cubes make an inexpensive wedding favour and are so pretty and decorative. Little edible sugar lumps that are simple to make and perfect for a homemade wedding idea.
Love Heart Sugar Cubes by Annie Rigg 
Not really cubes at all. These little sugar hearts would make the perfect gift for valentines, a hen night or as a wedding favour. You could tint the sugar almost any colour imaginable but pale, pastel shades are more elegant when teamed with vintage tea cups. Why stop at love heart sugar cubes? Look out for small star or simple flower shaped cutters to experiment with. MAKES LOTS!
250g Caster Sugar
Food Colouring Pastes (pink and other pastel colours)
Line 2 baking sheets with non-stick baking parchment. Put the sugar into a bowl, add 1€“2 tablespoons cold water and stir thoroughly until the sugar takes on the texture of damp sand, the kind you'd use to make sandcastles, adding more water or sugar to achieve the correct texture.
Tip half the mixture on to one of the baking sheets and press firmly to a thickness of 1cm. Using a small heart-shaped cookie cutter, stamp out shapes, one at a time. Using your fingers, gently push each sugar heart out of the cutter and on to the second baking sheet. Repeat until you have used up all the white sugar mixture.
Using a cocktail stick, add a tiny amount of pink food colouring paste to the remaining mixture and stir until combined. Stamp out more hearts in the sameway. Leave to dry overnight.
Package into pretty boxes. They will keep for up to 1 month.
Check out Annie's book "Gifts from the Kitchen" (Kyle Cathie £16.99) which has mouthwatering ideas to suit everyone and every occasion. If you're planning a DIY, homemade wedding you'll find it inspirational. 
Photography by Catherine Gratwicke
