Iced biscuits should be your go-to dessert of choice for special events and holidays. With this recipe you can make them in 45 minutes.
Ingredients
For these iced biscuits you need:
1 egg, 200 g golden caster sugar
400 g plain flour
200 g unsalted softened butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1 zested lemon
For the icing decoration you need food coloring, and fondant icing sugar combined with water.
Instructions
Start by setting the oven to 350 F degrees.
Whisk the butter until it has a creamy consistency. The best idea is to use an electric mixer.
Then, add the sugar, followed by the egg and vanilla. When you’re done with these, you can include the flour. Knead everything together.
Divide the biscuit dough in six parts and get the shape cutters. From each dough get the biscuits with the cutters.
Place them on a baking sheet and leave them in the oven for 7 to 10 minutes.
Take the biscuits out of the oven and you should leave them to cool down a little bit.
Prepare the icing in your favorite colors and you can start decorating the cookies.
It’s really easy to use this recipe for different holidays, by using different shape cutters and colors.
