Birthday biscuits

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• Julie K

  2007-12-18 10:59:37.182741

  Julie K commented on this recipe

  Great to find a biscuit recipe which works! My 7 year old made these on her own. Good for decorating.

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• mother*ship

  2008-02-14 16:24:18.872009

  mother*ship rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Just made these replacing 50g of the flour with cocoa and cut into hearts for Valentines day. I thought the dough was going to be too squidgey to roll but they have come out beautifully and taste delicious too! I'm going to decorate them with white chocolate.

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• TessB

  2009-05-14 15:35:47.921286

  TessB commented on this recipe

  This recipe only works with a food processor. If you haven't got one don't try it. It's very messy.

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• George

  2009-07-08 15:53:27.440416

  George rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Beautiful biccies - just like shortbread. Made in my KitchenAid and it worked perfectly. I varied the design slightly - I cut the biscuits into heart shapes with a cutter then decorated with pink spots all over and threaded pink ribbon through the top! Hung them on trees for my daughter's 2nd birthday - they looked and tasted gorgeous!!

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• Yvie

  2009-08-07 14:47:41.558831

  Yvie commented on this recipe

  If you dont have a food processor, would you simply make it like other doughs...crumble bettween fingers and then bring together into a ball? Or is it really too messy?

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• Michele

  2010-03-25 12:02:37.266871

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• penny.salmon

  2010-06-14 12:37:23.309221

  penny.salmon rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made these with my 4 year old to pass the time on a rainy day. She loved it as its so simple she did most of it herself. I am not usually succesful with biscuits but these where lovely

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• Laura P

  2010-08-11 17:26:54.624507

  Laura P commented on this recipe

  I made these with the children, they loved decorating them! The biscuits took a while longer than stated to cook, but that may be my oven! end results tasted really nice, quite a surprise!

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• Lozzers

  2010-12-02 10:46:28.333129

  Lozzers rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I've just made these with a couple of ounces of cocoa replacing the flour, they did take quite a while to come together in the food processor but cut and baked well without spreading (I've made snowflakes and christmas trees) The only thing I would say about kids making them themselves is that my dough was really quite delicate which would make handling the cut shapes or getting the dough out from in between them too fiddly for little ones.

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• Catherine

  2010-12-09 14:17:24.023745

  Catherine rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Very crumbly mixture but turned out really well.

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• Phantom

  2011-02-15 13:34:39.471592

  Phantom commented on this recipe

  I made these into heart shapes for Valentines day, I found the mixture fine and very easy to work with - produced some lovely biscuits.

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• lucimakesfabcake

  2011-04-05 12:25:21.207497

  lucimakesfabcake rated and commented on this recipe

  

  perfect :)

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• Laurenamy1

  2011-04-06 12:42:52.007503

  Laurenamy1 rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made these today for a birthday party. I've tried one and they are delicious. I must put them away until later! Having messed up so many biscuit recipes, I found this one very fool proof, easy to follow, and very tasty! I will certainly use it again.

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• masterfox

  2011-04-19 13:24:51.63119

  masterfox rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Really nice biscuits, and easy to make. I added some lemon zest to mine to complement the lemon icing as I'm a big lemon fan. Definitely make these again.

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• ChirpyChick

  2011-07-17 15:49:32.72838

  ChirpyChick rated and commented on this recipe

  

  hmmm i followed this recipe exact and as im usually a failure at biscuits i took them out of the oven after 10 minutes, they are still very soft so looks like they need to go back in the oven for 5 minutes :S bit disappointed :(

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• kayp

  2011-09-15 15:35:46.063286

  kayp rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Didn't taste very good

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• Faye Wade

  2011-09-20 14:42:26.194412

  Faye Wade rated and commented on this recipe

  

  These are delish!!! So easy and quick, made them yesterday for the first time and had to make them again today as they were all eaten within 2hours! My daughter and I had great fun decorating them with melted chocolate and decorations (the ones that lasted long enough to decorate that is!!!), no doubt I will be making these again tomorrow!

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• Kathleen

  2011-11-11 14:29:23.928932

  Kathleen commented on this recipe

  these biccies are so easy to make and my kids love them, however i did cook them on my pampered chef stone and i had to add an extra 8 mins cooking time but worth the wait

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• Emdeans

  2012-06-19 21:39:53.860011

  Emdeans commented on this recipe

  I don't have a blender so made these by hand and melted the butter slightly and they mixed up perfectly with no mess!

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• heather

  2013-03-14 12:58:30.634916

  heather commented on this recipe

  Made these biscuits for my grand daughters to sell for Red Nose Day...varied them by putting cream and red icing on ...sold very well to happy girls....

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Ingredients

• 250g plain white flour
• 85g golden caster sugar
• 175g unsalted butter , at room temperature, cubed
• 2 tbsp lemon curd
• 250g white icing sugar
• 1 tbsp strawberry conserve (we used St Dalfour)

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Make 24

Easily doubled

Preparation and cooking times

Prep 30 mins

Cook 10 mins

Vegetarian

Ingredients

• 250g plain white flour
• 85g golden caster sugar
• 175g unsalted butter , at room temperature, cubed
• 2 tbsp lemon curd
• 250g white icing sugar
• 1 tbsp strawberry conserve (we used St Dalfour)

Per biscuit

149 kcalories, protein 1g, carbohydrate 24g, fat 6 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 0g, sugar 16g, salt 0.01 g

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