Hi everyone, I can't believe it's Christmas
already, where has this month gone, in fact this whole year has been a
blur! Anyway, the other day I made these
very pretty Snowflake biscuits. When I
made them last year, they were ok not
great but this time I've made them with slightly different ingredients and I
can honestly say, they taste amazing!
So if you fancy having a go at making them ready
for Christmas, keep on reading and I'll show you how :-)
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Once you've gathered up your ingredients,
measure out the butter (best used at room temperature) and the sugar.
I usually use my trusty food mixer but this time
I thought I'd have a go at mixing the ingredients in a bowl instead, just to
see if they would come out any better. Mix
the two together until they're nice and smooth.
Measure out the flour. You can also add baking powder and salt if
you like but I forgot to add these and it didn't seem to make any
difference! Add the flour to the sugar/butter
mixture, a little at a time and blend together until you have a soft
dough. If it seems very crumbly and dry,
add a splash of milk and mix it in well.
Mine seemed ok, so I didn't add any milk.
Now tip the dough out on to a lightly floured board
and roll it nice and evenly with a rolling pin, I would advise using a wooden
rolling pin or a ceramic one with a little flour on it, I couldn't find my new
ceramic one so had to use my glass one again, and like last year, the dough
kept sticking to it even though I kept adding flour! Such a pain.
Moving on to the next stage, cut out as many snowflake
shapes as you can, I did 8 large and 10 small, just so I had a couple of spares
and thankfully just had enough dough.
Put the shapes on a lightly floured baking tray
and put them in the oven on 150ยบ for about 20-25 minutes or until golden brown
and firm. You may need to rotate the
trays half way through so they cook evenly.
With my weird oven however, I had to cook them for nearly 45 mins but
just keep checking them and go by how they look.
When they're done, either leave the tray on the
side and cover with a tea towel to cool or if you can (without them breaking),
carefully lift the biscuits off the tray and lay them on a wire rack.
When the biscuits are completely cooled, you can
start decorating them. To make up the
icing, measure approximately 4 tablespoons of icing sugar in to a bowl and gradually
add teaspoonfuls of luke-warm water, mix really well until you have a smooth
paste, don't have it too thick or too runny.
Add spoonfuls of the icing in to a piping bag and
just snip off the very tip, only about 2-3mm down, so you get a nice thin line.
You could use food colour if you want and do a
different pattern, have a look on pinterest or google images there's a hundred
and one ideas! I wanted to make the
small snowflakes stick to the big ones, so I just added a little icing to the bottom
of the small one like using a glue, and stuck them in place. Then I just carefully decorated them. You could also add sprinkles, chocolate
flakes or little 'hundreds & thousands' or just keep them simple whatever
you like really.
One thing I will say, I think it really helped
using the raw cane sugar instead of regular white sugar, it gave the biscuits
are much more crunchy baked taste, it's also supposed to be alot better for you
as well, as it is natural sugar and not bleached which has a lot of chemicals
in, so extra bonus points for that too.
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I hope you like this
post. If you fancy having a go at making
these biscuits, please send me your pics on Twitter @DaniJ72 I'd love to
see them :-) I hope you all have a
wonderful Christmas whatever you're doing and who ever you're spending it with
xxx
Until Next Time Stay Happy ♥
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