Lemon Easter biscuits

Use this basic biscuit mix for delicious Easter biscuits and let your imagination run riot with the decoration

Preparation time: 20 minutes plus chilling time
Cooking time: 12 minutes
Decorating time: As long as you want
Makes: About 20 depending on size of cutter

What you need:

Cookies

• 140g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar, sieved
• 1 tsp Silver Spoon Cakecraft Lemon Natural Extract
• 1 Egg yolk
• 250g Butter, cut into small cubes
• 375g Plain flour, sieved

Decoration

• 100g Silver Spoon Cakecraft White Ready to Roll Icing
• Silver Spoon Cakecraft Food Colour, of your choice
• Silver Spoon Cakecraft Writing Icing
• Silver Spoon Cakecraft Coloured Choco Beans
• Silver Spoon Cakecraft Silver Balls

What you do:

1. Put the icing sugar, lemon natural extract, egg yolk and butter in the food processor. Pulse until well combined.
2. Add the flour and mix to a firm dough. Shape the dough into two balls, wrap in cling film and chill for about 30 minutes.
3. Heat the oven to 190°C/fan 170°C/375°F/Gas Mark 5. Line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.
4. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to about the thickness of two £1 coins. Cut out Easter shapes and place on the baking sheets. (Make a hole using a skewer if you want to thread ribbon through the biscuits). Bake for 10 -12 minutes until lightly golden.
5. Leave the biscuits to cool on a wire rack before you start decorating.

To decorate:

1. Take about 100g Ready to Roll Icing. Add a few drops of the food colour of your choice (this can be done by dipping a wooden skewer into the food colour and piercing the icing all over). Knead until you get a nice even colour.
2. Lightly dust a surface with icing sugar and roll the coloured icing, then cut shapes that are slightly smaller than the biscuit shapes. Pipe a little of the white writing icing onto the biscuit and use to stick the icing shapes to the biscuit. Use the various writing icing to decorate the biscuits and also to stick the variety of Silver Spoon Cakecraft decoration such as Coloured Choco Beans, or Silver Balls to the biscuits.

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