Chick Biscuits
Looking for a fun and delicious way to celebrate Easter? Look no further than these egg-cellent Easter Chick biscuits! These treats are sure to bring a smile to your face, with their cute and colourful designs and sweet, buttery flavour.
Here’s What You’ll Need
125g cold unsalted butter (cubed)
125g caster sugar
250g plain flour
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
Royal icing, mixed to pack instructions
Cake Décor Yellow colour gel
Cake Décor Writing Icing
Cake Décor Edible Eyes
Here's What You'll Do:
- Beat together butter and sugar until creamed.
- Add in egg and vanilla and beat again, your mixture might look odd but it will come together with the flour.
- Add in flour and mix until a dough is formed.
- Turn out onto a floured surface and knead the dough into a ball and then cover with film and chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Once chilled, roll dough out on floured surface, using an egg shaped cutters to cut out your biscuit shapes.
- Place your shapes on prepared baking trays and place in the fridge to chill again for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 190ºC/180 ºC
- Bake biscuits for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.
- Leave to cool slightly on tray before transferring to a wire rack to cool fully.
Decorate:
- Once fully cool your biscuits are ready to decorate.
- Prepare royal icing, adding in yellow colour gel to achieve the colour you would like for your chicks.
- Spoon a little icing on each biscuit, remember the icing will spread so just add a little at a time.
- Once each biscuit has been covered, gently add two Edible Eyes to each chick.
- Finish off your chick biscuits by using an orange writing icing tube to add a triangular beak and two claws to each chick biscuit.
