SIMPLE ICED BISCUITS
Make these sweet iced letters and numbers with your kids during school holidays. They'll have fun making them and then devour them once ready
Provided by Lulu Grimes
Categories Afternoon tea, Dessert, Treat
Time 50m
Yield Makes 40-45
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the butter in a bowl and beat it using an electric whisk until soft and creamy. Beat in the sugar, then the egg and vanilla or lemon, and finally the flour to make a dough. If the dough feels a bit sticky, add a little more flour and knead it in.
- Cut the dough into six pieces and roll out one at a time to about 5mm thickness on a floured surface. The easiest way to do this is to roll the mixture out on a baking mat. Cut out letter and number shapes (we used 7 x 4cm cutters) and peel away the leftover dough at the edges. Re-roll any off-cuts and repeat.
- Transfer the whole mat or the individual biscuits to two baking sheets (transfer them to baking parchment if not using a mat) and bake for 7-10 mins or until the edges are just brown. Leave to cool completely and repeat with the rest of the dough. You should be able to fit about 12 on each sheet. If you are using two sheets, then the one underneath will take a minute longer.
- Ice the biscuits using the pens to make stripes or dots, or colour in the whole biscuit if you like. They will keep for five days in an airtight container.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 86 calories, Fat 4 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 11 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 4 grams sugar, Protein 1 grams protein, Sodium 0.2 milligram of sodium
SPICE BISCUITS (COOKIES)
This originally came from Helen's British Cooking website. They are lovely lightly spiced, crisp biscuits (cookies), perfect for serving with tea. Mixed spice can be replaced by either pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice if British mixed spice is unavailable.
Provided by Heather Sullivan
Categories Dessert
Time 30m
Yield 24 biscuits(cookies)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 180C (170C for fan ovens), 350F, gas mark 4 and grease a baking sheet or cookie sheet.
- Beat the softened butter with the caster sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add egg yolks and beat to combine.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, mixed spice and cinnamon and whisk (or sieve).
- Stir the spiced flour into the egg, butter and sugar mixture and knead lightly on a floured board to bring the dough together.
- Roll out dough to 0.5cm (quarter of an inch) thickness on a floured board or surface and cut out into 2 inch rounds or whatever shapes you desire; Do not reroll dough too many times or biscuits will be tough.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until very lightly browned at the edges then use a spatula to transfer biscuits to a wire rack to cool.
- Store in an airtight container to retain crispness.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 104.1, Fat 4.2, SaturatedFat 2.5, Cholesterol 25.6, Sodium 1.4, Carbohydrate 15.3, Fiber 0.4, Sugar 6.3, Protein 1.5
FANCY ICED BISCUITS
Edd Kimber talks through how to master piping and flood icing to create these cute cookies with a distinct decoration
Provided by Edd Kimber
Categories Afternoon tea
Time 1h17m
Yield Makes 20
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Line a couple of trays with baking parchment and heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Mix together the flour, salt, caster sugar and lime zest (keep the zested limes for the icing). Add the butter and rub together until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Beat the egg and vanilla bean paste together with a fork, then mix into the other ingredients. Knead until even. Chill until firm, then roll on a lightly floured surface until about 4-5mm thick. Stamp out 8cm rounds, transfer to baking trays, then chill again for 15 mins before baking for 15-17 mins until golden. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool before decorating.
- For the icing, put the royal icing sugar into a bowl, add about 65ml lemon or lime juice and use a metal spoon or electric mixer to beat until it is fairly thick and glossy. If the icing is too thick though, it will be hard to pipe. Take a quarter of the icing, put into a piping bag fitted with a No 2 (very small round) piping nozzle and set aside. To see step-by-step images, please see the tips, below left, for a link to our guide page.
- For the flood icing, add another 10ml lemon or lime juice to the remaining icing, a few drops at a time until it is pourable. You can now divide this icing into as many bowls as you like and colour by mixing in a little gel food colouring.
- Place the coloured icing into three piping bags, ready for decorating.
- To decorate the biscuits, use the thicker icing to draw your outline or design onto the biscuits. Let the icing set for a few minutes.
- Pipe enough runnier icing to cover the entire biscuit - don't worry about it being neat at this point. Use a toothpick to spread the icing evenly inside the hard icing 'wall'. If the surface of the icing isn't flat, gently shake the biscuit back and forth until you have a smooth covering.
- To add a simple dot decoration, while the icing is still wet, use the runnier icing again to pipe dots again - this will sink on, leaving you with a smooth effect. Pop the biscuits onto a baking tray and place into an oven at its lowest setting for about 30 mins to allow the icing to set hard.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 210 calories, Fat 7 grams fat, SaturatedFat 4 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 36 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 25 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 2 grams protein, Sodium 0.1 milligram of sodium
ICED SPICE BISCUITS
Lovely spicey hard cookies, you can't just have one!! I've been making this recipe since I was about 6; it came from a children's cookbook. yummi!
Provided by pachyrachy
Categories Dessert
Time 35m
Yield 15 cookies (about)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 190c/375f/gas mark 5.
- Beat the butter and sugar til fluffy then beat the egg in bit by bit.
- Sift in the flour, salt and spice.
- Mix well and make a ball of firm dough.
- Roll the dough out until 1/4 inch thick.
- Cut dough into shapes.
- Bake for 15 minutes, until golden brown.
- Mix the icing sugar and hot water until smooth.
- Colour if necessary.
- Spread onto biscuits.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 204, Fat 7.3, SaturatedFat 4.4, Cholesterol 31.9, Sodium 66.5, Carbohydrate 32.3, Fiber 0.6, Sugar 16.3, Protein 2.6
SPICED CHRISTMAS BISCUITS
The whole family will enjoy making these cute and Christmassy gingerbread treats. Decorate with icing and your favourite sweets.
Provided by Sara Buenfeld
Categories Treat
Time 1h45m
Yield Makes 16 plus extra stars
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Gently melt the butter, muscovado sugar and syrup in a large pan until the sugar dissolves. Mix the flour, spices and ½ tsp salt. Cool the butter mixture a little, then stir in the bicarb. Immediately add half the spiced flour and beat well. Add the egg and the rest of the spiced flour, then beat well again until the mixture comes together as a soft dough. Tip onto a sheet of foil, flatten to a large disc, then cool and chill until firm. Will freeze for up to 6 weeks.
- Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Halve the dough and roll out on a floured surface. Stamp out trees using a cutter about 10cm long and arrange, well spaced apart, on baking sheets. Bake for 12-15 mins until golden. Leave to harden, then lift onto a rack. Repeat with the remaining dough. Use the trimmings to stamp out 3-4cm stars, then bake for 9-10 mins.
- To decorate, mix about 3 tbsp water into the icing sugar to make a thick icing. Use to sandwich two trees together with a lolly stick between them. Use the rest of the icing to ice the trees and stars, adding sweets or sprinkling with the sugar. For a neater result, use the writing icing to make an outline of the tree before filling in with the icing. Leave to set. Will keep in a tin for 3-4 days.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 278 calories, Fat 6 grams fat, SaturatedFat 3 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 57 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 39 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 3 grams protein, Sodium 0.47 milligram of sodium
CHRISTMAS BISCUITS
These cinnamon flavoured Christmas biscuits are great for getting the kids involved in cooking, and they will look great on the tree too
Provided by Mary Cadogan
Categories Afternoon tea, Treat
Time 2h
Yield Makes 30-40 depending on size
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Heat the sugar, golden syrup and butter until melted. Mix the spices and flour in a large bowl. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in 1 tsp cold water. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, add the melted sugar mix, egg and bicarbonate of soda. Mix well. At this stage the mix will be soft but will firm up on cooling.
- Cover the surface of the biscuit mix with wrapping and leave to cool, then put in the fridge for at least 1 hr to become firm enough to roll out.
- Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly. (At this stage the dough can be put into a food bag and kept in the fridge for up to a week.) Cut the dough in half. Thinly roll out one half on a lightly floured surface. Cut into shapes with cutters, such as gifts, trees and hearts, then transfer to baking sheets, leaving a little room for them to spread. If you plan to hang the biscuits up, make a small hole in the top of each one using a skewer. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake for 12-15 mins until they darken slightly. If the holes you have made have closed up, remake them while the biscuits are warm and soft using a skewer. Cool for a few mins on the baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool and harden up completely.
- Break up the chocolate and melt in the microwave on Medium for 1-2 mins, or in a small heatproof bowl over simmering water. Drizzle the chocolate over the biscuits, or pipe on shapes or names, then stick a few silver balls into the chocolate. If hung up on the tree, the biscuits will be edible for about a week, but will last a lot longer as decorations.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 119 calories, Fat 4 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 20 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 11 grams sugar, Protein 2 grams protein, Sodium 0.18 milligram of sodium
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