Decorated Egg Cookies
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
40 min.
Preparation
ready in 1 hr 10 min.
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Ingredients
for
12
- For the biscuits
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 0.333 cup unsalted butter
- 0.333 cup caster sugar
- 2 Tbsps Golden syrup
- vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
- To decorate
- 1 ¼ cups white Sugar paste
- blue, green, and yellow Food coloring
- powdered sugar
Preparation steps
1.
For the biscuits: put the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, syrup, vanilla and egg yolks and mix to a dough. Form into a ball and wrap in cling film. Chill for 30 minutes.
2.
Heat the oven to 180°C (160° fan) 350°F gas 4. Line a large baking tray with non-stick baking paper.
3.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface. Cut into 10-12 oval shapes and place on the baking tray. Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden. Leave on the baking trays for 2 minutes to firm up then remove to a wire rack to cool.
4.
To decorate: divide the sugarpaste into 3. Reserve a small piece. Knead a few drops of blue colouring into 1/3; a few drops of yellow colouring into another 1/3 and green colouring into another 1/3.
5.
Roll out the colured sugarpastes on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar and cut into ovals, the same size as the biscuits. Dampen the sugarpaste ovals with a little water and attach to the biscuits.
6.
Roll the remainig sugarpaste into small balls, strips and whirls and attach to the biscuits with a little water.
