biscuits Archives - Megan Taylor

Tiny Valentines Biscuits

I am aware this Valentine’s Day biscuit recipe is coming at quite a late date but as it is half term my mummy readers may wish to make these biscuits today with their children. My non-mummy readers may wish to make these yummy biscuits tonight as they only take 20 minutes from to make from start to finish.
This biscuit recipe is a family hand me down from my auntie and is incredibly quick and easy biscuit recipe to use with children because it is quick and easy and they can do everything themselves, with a little supervision. Best of all they taste delicious.
I have added a a teaspoon of cinnamon because I adore the flavour (Christmas throwback). Other ideas would be to add the zest of an orange to the recipe. One of my favourite icing tips are to add the juice of a lemon to your icing sugar instead of water to give each bite a zesty tang.

RECIPE

1 oz soft dark brown sugar
2 oz butter
3 oz flour
1 tsp cinnamon
Icing sugar and food colouring.

METHOD

•Preheat your oven to 160º and grease a baking tray
•In a bowl, mix together all of your ingredients with your hands
•Your mixture will look as if it isn’t going to bind but give it some time and it will turn into the softest dough
•Lightly dust your surface with flour and roll out your dough roughly £1 coin thick
•Cut out your desired shapes and place on your prepared baking sheet
•Cook for 10-15 minutes or until golden
•Once your cookies have cooled down you can start decorating them however you like

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Speedy Valentine’s Day Biscuits

Valentine’s Day is in a couple of hours time and some us may have forgotten to get our loved ones a gift.
These biscuits only take 10 minutes to bake and can be decorated personally for many of your Valentine’s.
I adapted the recipe from one of my favourite cookbooks. My mum bought me this book when I was 18 and it has every recipe you could possibly need. You can buy it here. (Good Housekeeping Step By Step Cook Book).
The recipe makes the most amazing soft dough which is very easy to cut into your desired shapes.

Bakes: 26 medium hearts
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Baking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
175g Softened butter
200g golden caster sugar
350g plain flour
1 medium egg
2tsp vanilla essence
decorations for your cookies (I used melted dark chocolate)

Method:
1. Mix all your ingredients into a food processor and mix until the ingredients are almost combined into a ball.
2. Roll into a ball to combine the ingredients fully.
3. Roll out the dough about 3mm deep.
4. Lay on baking parchment, on your baking tray.
5. Cook for ten minutes, alternating your trays at half time.
6. Leave your biscuits to cool whilst you sort out your decorating equipment.

Have fun & Happy Valentine’s Day everyone.

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Christmas Sugar Biscuits

Today was my last day of work for 2016.
To celebrate I decided to make some quick and easy Christmas sugar biscuits.
After only 10 minutes of cooking you can gather your friends and family together to decorate your biscuits.

Ingredients
100g butter
100g golden caster sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1tsp ground cinnamon
275g plain flour
Decorations of your choice

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 190°
2. Cream the butter and sugar
3. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract
4. Gradually mix in the flour
5. Roll out your dough to 1cm and use cookie cutters to make your festive cookie shapes
6. Cook for 8-10minutes
7. Leave to cool before decorating

Let me know if you make them…
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Chocolate dipped, orange zest shortbread biscuits

My mum found this scrumptious butter biscuits recipe last week in the Saturday Mail. There were a whole list of recipes for baking aimed at baking beginners. Ever the competitive spirit I took the simple shortbread recipe a step further adding orange zest and chocolate. I personally believe, chocolate makes everything better.

INGREDIENTS
150g unsalted butted, softened and diced
225g plain flour, sifted (plus extra for dusting)
100g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
1tsp vanilla extract
Zest of 1 orange
50g of dark chocooate
(You will need a cookie cutter or glass to cut them and a rolling pin)
(Makes approximately 30 cookies)

STEP 1
Preheat the oven to 180°.
Using your finger tips, rub together the butter, flour and sugar until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

STEP 2
Using a wooden spoon, mix in the egg yolk, vanilla extract and the zest of one orange.

STEP 3
Form the dough into a ball, then turn it onto a lightly floured surface kneading the dough for a few seconds.

STEP 4
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5mm using a rolling pin.

STEP 5
Using a cookie cutter, cut out 30 cookies and place on baking sheets. You do not need to grease the sheets. Bake for 10 minutes.

STEP 6
When turning golden at the edges, leave them to cool then decorate your biscuits with chocolate however you wish. I went for the dipped effect.