Birthday biscuits

Kids cookies recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has white flour, golden caster sugar, unsalted butter, lemon curd, icing sugar and strawberry conserve.

Birthday biscuits

Birthday biscuits

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Kids cookies
Servings

4 - 8

servings
Prep time

30 mins

Ingredients

  • Unsalted Butter: 175g unsalted butter, at room temperature, cubed
  • Golden Caster Sugar: 85g golden caster sugar
  • Icing Sugar: 250g white icing sugar
  • White Flour: 250g plain white flour
  • Strawberry Conserve: 1 tbsp strawberry conserve (we used St Dalfour)
  • Lemon Curd: 2 tbsp lemon curd

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Put the flour, sugar and butter into a food processor. Whizz until the mixture forms crumbs, then pulse a little more until it forms a ball.
  2. Spread a large sheet of baking parchment over the work surface and turn the dough onto it. Dust with a little flour, then roll out to about the thickness of two PS1 coins. Stamp out 24 rounds using a 5cm round fluted cutter, then cut out the middles with the end of a piping nozzle. Carefully peel the rest of the mixture away from the stamped shapes. Lift onto baking sheets and bake for 10 mins until pale golden. Cool on a wire rack.
  3. Put the lemon curd into a bowl with 2 tbsp boiling water and mix until smooth. Sieve in 175g of the icing sugar; stir together to make a smooth icing. Put the strawberry fruit spread in another bowl and add 2 tsp boiling water, mix, then sieve in the remaining icing sugar.
  4. Spoon the lemon icing over the biscuits, then drizzle or pipe over the pinky icing. Leave to set for at least 20 mins. Will keep for up to 2 days in an airtight tin, longer if left un-iced.