Medal cookies
Make these round vanilla biscuits, ice in bright colours, thread on a ribbon and give out as edible prizes
Difficulty and servings
MAKES 15 cookies
Preparation and cooking times
Prep 35 mins
Cook 15 mins
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line 2 baking trays with baking parchment. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a small saucepan. Mix in the vanilla, remove from the heat and leave to cool for 10 mins.
- Sieve the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Pour in the melted butter mixture and the egg, and stir together to form a stiff-ish dough. Pop the dough in the fridge for 10 mins to chill and firm up.
- Roll the dough out on a floured surface to 5mm thick, then stamp out 15 circles using a 7.5cm round cookie cutter; you may need to re-roll the trimmings to get 15 cookies. Make a hole at the top of each circle with the end of a pencil.
- Place on the baking trays and bake for 12 mins until golden, swapping the trays around halfway through. Cool on a wire rack. Decorate the cookies (see below), making sure the hole is at the top of each one. Will keep for 3 days in an airtight container.
HOW TO DECORATE YOUR COOKIES
Divide icing into 4 . Dye 3 lumps with base colours.
Roll coloured icing to 2mm thick. Use 7cm cutter to make 15 rounds.
Stick these to cookies with icing sugar mixed with water.
Roll out remaining icing, brush with water and cut out 12 stars. Dip each star, sticky-side down, into edible gold glitter, then stick on top of the cookies.
Use number cutters to stamp out 1, 2 and 3, dip these into the glitter and stick to the final 3 medals. Use icing pens to add a border.
PER COOKIE
418 kcalories, protein 3.0g, carbohydrate 82.0g, fat 8.0 g, saturated fat 5.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 66.0g, salt 0.4 g
Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2012.
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Ingredients
- 140g butter
- 100g light soft brown sugar
- 3 tbsp golden syrup
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 350g plain flour , plus extra for dusting
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 large egg
TO DECORATE
- 1kg pack ready-to-roll icing
- icing sugar
- food colouring paste, edible glitter and icing pens (optional)
- 15 long colourful ribbons
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Difficulty and servings
MAKES 15 cookies
Preparation and cooking times
Prep 35 mins
Cook 15 mins
Ingredients
- 140g butter
- 100g light soft brown sugar
- 3 tbsp golden syrup
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 350g plain flour , plus extra for dusting
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 large egg
TO DECORATE
- 1kg pack ready-to-roll icing
- icing sugar
- food colouring paste, edible glitter and icing pens (optional)
- 15 long colourful ribbons
PER COOKIE
418 kcalories, protein 3.0g, carbohydrate 82.0g, fat 8.0 g, saturated fat 5.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 66.0g, salt 0.4 g
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