Mini-pies or "Bleeding Hearts"

This is my first recipe. A relatively easy one which is fun to make and just as fun to eat!
It is a biscuit-pie filled with scrumptious jam and has a vegan alternative.

Ingredients
For the "pastry":
1.-375g soft white flour.
2.-10g dry yeast (or 20g fresh).
3.-150g sugar.
4.-300g butter or margerine (corn marge works very well and adds a nice taste).
5.-1 egg (use a spoonful of extra marge and bit more water if vegan, it´s really just for binding).
6.-10-20g of vanilla sugar or couple of vanilla sticks (if you know how to prepare them).

For the filling and topping:
1.-Jam of your choice. Preferably red.
2.-150g crushed almonds.

Extra (not necessary, but very good if you use them):
1.-Another egg (separated into white and yolk).
2.-Almond slivers.

Utensils:
1.-A bowl.
2.-Very many spoons.
3.-Rolling-pin.
4.-2 Heart-shaped cut-out figures. One bigger than the other by at least 2mm, so they fit inside each other.
5.-An oven.
6.-A non-stick (or thoughroughly greased) baking tray.

RECIPE
1.- Mix the flour, the yeast and the vanilla sugar (or vanilla cane) in first. Mix very well, especially if using fresh yeast.

2.- Mix the butter(marge) and sugar together. If using, add the whole egg.

3.- Mix everything together now. Add some more butter(marge) or little water if you have binding problems.

4.- Shape the mix into a ball. Put it in a cling-film covered bowl and leave to rest for an hour in the refrigerator. [Lick clean all spoons involving sugar X3! But seriously, use this time to clean up a bit.]

5.- Prep the chopping-board for the mass (spread some plain flour over it). Use plain flour whenever you´re making something sweet. Corn-flour and integral give it an odd flavor.

6.- Knead the dough in the bowl first. Lift out and spread on the chopping board with a floured rolling-pin. Try and spread so it is aproximately 3mm thick.

7.- Cut out the hearts. Use the smaller heart to cut holes in the middle of 1/3 of the hearts. (So you don´t forget, try cutting three and then making a hole in one; three, hole, three, hole...etc. )

8.- Knead your leftover dought and make more. Make as many as possible.

9.- Put the ones with a hole on top of half the ones without. Line up well. Roll out the the remaining 1/3rd of the biscuits a little more and put them to one side (all these should be whole hearts).

10.- Pre-heat the oven at 175Cº.

11.- Bake the "double" biscuits at 160Cº for about 8-10 mins.

12.- Remove them fron the oven and let them cool a little.

13.- While they cool, brush half the uncooked hearts with egg-yolk and half with egg-white. Sprinkle crushed almonds on the ones with egg-white on them.
(If vegan, you can just sprinkle the crushed almond on, just press down on it a little once sprinkled.)

14.- Once the cooked buiscuits are only warm, spoon your jam of choice into them. Make sure not to fill all the way up to the top, leave a little space.

15.- Put the uncooked biscuits on top of the jam-filled ones. Make a small slit in the top so that the steam can get out.

16.- Return to the oven and cook on top heat only, at 150Cº for one or two minuites. If they don´t look cooked by then, leave them on for a while longer, but always watch the oven.

17.- Leave them in the oven to cool. Once cool, you can put a sliver of almond in the steam-hole to cover it, if you wish.

OK! I may add photos from next-time I make them.
You can also make them in any shape you want, with any jam. I just like them as "Bleeding Hearts". <3 <3 <3

If you have any questions, problems or just want to show off your home-made "Bleeding Hearts", post it in a comment below and I´ll attend to it as soon as possible.