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| 325 grams | Plain White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly) |  |
| 200 grams | Butter (chilled) | |
| 125 grams | Golden Caster Sugar (Billington's) |  |
| 2 tsp | Vanilla Extract (Nielsen Massey) |  |
| 2 | Egg Yolk |  |
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Iced Easter Biscuits
Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad
Cut this easy to make shortbread dough into any shapes you like, then use the same cutters to cut out coloured ready to roll icing and decorate with Easter designs.
| Preparation Time | 20 minutes |
|---|---|
| Baking Time | 10 minutes |
| Portions | 30 |
| Skill Level | Easy |
| Average Rating |  |
Additional Ingredients
To decorate
| 1 tbsp | Apricot Jam (warmed and sieved) | |
| 250 grams | Ready to Roll Icing |  |
| Pink Food Colouring | ||
| Blue Food Colouring | ||
| Purple Food Colouring | ||
| Yellow Food Colouring | ||
| Green Food Colouring | ||
| Coloured Chocolate Beans | ||
| Writing Icing (Silver Spoon Create) |  |
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How to make Iced Easter Biscuits
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Set the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/Gas Mark 4. Lightly grease 2-3 baking trays.
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Place the butter, flour and sugar in a food processor and blend until it makes fine crumbs. Add the egg yolks and continue to blend until the mixture clumps together. Alternatively, if you are making the recipe by hand, rub the butter into the flour until it forms bread crumbs, then stir in the sugar and egg yolks and beat with a wooden spoon until it forms a dough.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead lightly into a ball. Wrap in cling film and chill for 30 mins.
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Roll the mixture out on a lightly floured work surface, then using cutters cut out your shapes, letters or words.
- Bake for 10-15 mins depending on size and thickness, or until just pale golden. Allow to cool for 10 mins on the baking trays then cool completely. If liked, sandwich the biscuits together with jam or buttercream and dust them with a little icing sugar.
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Divide the ready to roll icing into portions and add a drop of food colouring to each and knead until the colour is even. Wrap the icings tightly in cling film to prevent drying.
- When you are ready to begin decorating dust the work top with a little icing sugar and roll out the coloured icing thinly. Using the same cutters that you used for the biscuits cut out the icing into shapes.
- Before laying the icing on the biscuit spread very thinly with a little of the warm apricot jam to allow the icing to stick.
- To finish decorate the iced biscuits with coloured chocolate beans, securing each in place hoco button with a dot of writing icing. You could also pipe an Easter message into your biscuits or use the coloured writing icing or decorate them.
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