Heart 40 Mm

A heart is the shape every baking drawer needs and rarely has in the right size. This is the small end of the range, the cutter you reach for when the plan is a tray of little biscuits rather than one showstopper, or a scattering of shapes to sit on top of an iced cake. Symmetrical, plain and entirely unfussy, it has no styling to date it, which is why a cutter like this gets used year after year while novelty shapes bought for one occasion stay in the drawer. Valentine's Day is the obvious outing, but it does as much work for wedding favours, engagement parties, christenings and the sort of Sunday afternoon baking where children want to help and everything has to stay simple. Biscuit dough, fondant, sugarpaste or salt dough, a heart is a heart.