Honey cookies

Delicious cookies with a hint of honey

• Serves: 8

What you need:

• 75g honey (weigh the jar with the honey in it and take out enough to reduce the weight by 75g)
• 150g soft light brown sugar
• 50g butter
• 300g plain flour
• 1 level tsp Dr.Oetker Baking Powder
• 1 medium egg, beaten

What you do:

1. Melt the honey, butter and sugar gently until the sugar has dissolved. Allow to cool slightly.
2. Sift the flour into a bowl, add the beaten egg and the melted mixture to form a soft dough.
3. Roll it out and cut out shapes with cutters.
4. Bake the biscuits on a lightly greased baking sheet for 10 - 12 minutes. Alternatively line baking sheets with Teflon liner. Allow to cool completely and decorate with icing as required.

To decorate:

1. Dr. Oetker Ready To Use Fairy Cake Icing
2. Dr. Oetker Chocolate Flavour Writing Icing /Dr. Oetker Writing Icing
3. Or Dr. Oetker Ready to Roll Regal-Ice Icing (White or Chocolate)
4. White vegetable fat
5. Piping gel or jam to attach icing
6. Dr. Oetker Liquid Food Colours
7. Dr. Oetker Decorations - Shimmer Sugar, Mini Jazzies, Sugar Strands, Glimmer Hundreds & Thousands, Silver balls

Cook's tip:

To make spiced gingerbread cookies add 1 level tsp ground ginger and 1 level tsp mixed spice to the mix with the flour. For a more adult biscuit use soft dark brown sugar and add 1/2 tsp of finely ground black pepper with the flour.

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