Iced Biscuits

Mon, 18 June 2018

Louise Lennox was in the kitchen to whip up these tasty treats. 

Makes: 12 Biscuits.

Time to Complete: Prep 40 mins, Cooking 25 mins.

For the Biscuits

100g       Unsalted Butter, room temp

150g       Caster Sugar

Pinch     Salt

1              Large Egg

Zest       1 Lemon

1tsp       Dr Oetker Vanilla Extract

200g       Plain Flour

½ tsp     Dr Oetker Baking Powder

To Decorate 

Dr Oetker Gel Food Colours

Dr Oetker Hundreds & Thousands

Icing Sugar

Dr Oetker Cocoa Powder

Dr Oetker Bright Writing Icing.

Preheat oven to 180⁰C. Line trays with baking parchment. Place butter and sugar in large bowl and beat with electric mixer. Add salt and beat in the egg, lemon zest and Dr. Oetker Vanilla.

In another bowl mix together flour and Dr Oetker Baking Powder, combine with the butter & sugar mix.  Stir well with a spatula.

Bring dough together and then chill in the fridge in the bowl for 5 or 10 minutes.

Lay baking parchment on flat surface, dust lightly with flour, place dough on top and place more parchment on top. Roll to about 5mm thick.

Cut out dough with a selection of cookie cutters and place on the prepared trays.

Chill the trays of dough in the fridge for at least 20 minutes.

Bake approx 25 minutes. Allow to cool on the tray.

Decorate biscuits using an exciting selection of Dr Oetker Icing and Edible decorations

For coloured icing, mix 225g icing sugar with 2-3tbsp of boiling water and a couple of drops of our chose Dr Oetker Gel Colouring. For a chocolate icing replace 1 tbsp of the icing sugar with 1 tbsp of Dr Oetker Cocoa Powder.