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Iced easter biscuits

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1 Reviews

Total Time
53m
Prep Time
45m
Bake Time
8m
32 biscuits
32 biscuits
easy
Easy

About the bake

Easter is one of our favourite baking occasions and who doesn't love an iced Easter biscuit. This Easter biscuit recipe is so simple everyone can get involved with the baking, decorating...and most importantly the eating! 

9 ingredients8 steps

    Method

    1. Step 1

      Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan, gas mark 4). Lightly grease 2-3 baking trays.

    2. Step 2

      Cream the butter & sugar, until light & fluffy.

    3. Step 3

      Add the egg yolk in and mix before folding in the flour and spices.

    4. Step 4

      Make the mixture into a dough & chill for 30 mins.

    5. Step 5

      Roll out the dough on to a lightly floured surface, ¼ inch thick and cut out Easter shape biscuits using a variety of biscuit cutters.

    6. Step 6

      Place on a baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes.

    7. Step 7

      To decorate make up the icing as directed on the packet. Once the right consistency is achieved split into batches and colour the icing, dipping a cocktail stick into the desired colours and mixing well into the icing mixture.

    8. Step 8

      Decorate each biscuit with a different design – the biscuit should have a full covering of icing. 

    Ingredients

    • For the biscuits

      • 100gUnsalted butter (softened) 
      • 75gSilver Spoon Caster Sugar 
      • 1Egg yolk 
      • 200gPlain Flour 
      • 1 tspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract 
      • 1 tspMixed spice 
      • 1/2 tspCinnamon 
    • For the icing

      • 200gSilver spoon royal icing sugar 
      • varietyFood colouring (various colours) 

    1 Baker Ratings

    The recipe didn't quite make a dough for me, but adding an extra 100g-soft-butter and a couple more egg yolks binded it for me. Also, I would recommend adding a heaped teaspoon of cinnamon to enhance the otherwise relatively bland flavour...

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