Birthday biscuits

Birthday biscuits

These ring biscuits are perfect for parties and work well in any shape, get the kids to help

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Make 24

Easily doubled

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 10 mins

Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Method

  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 £1 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.

Per biscuit

149 kcalories, protein 1.0g, carbohydrate 24.0g, fat 6.0 g, saturated fat 4.0g, fibre 0.0g, sugar 16.0g, salt 0.01 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2007.

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  • Binder photo Julie K

    18 December 2007

    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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  • Binder photo mother*ship

    14 February 2008

    mother*ship rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    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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  • Binder photo TessB

    14 May 2009

    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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  • Binder photo George

    08 July 2009

    George rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    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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  • Binder photo Yvie

    07 August 2009

    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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  • Binder photo Michele

    25 March 2010

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  • Binder photo penny.salmon

    14 June 2010

    penny.salmon rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    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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  • Binder photo Laura P

    11 August 2010

    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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  • Binder photo Lozzers

    02 December 2010

    Lozzers rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    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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  • Binder photo Catherine

    09 December 2010

    Catherine rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Very crumbly mixture but turned out really well.

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  • Binder photo Phantom

    15 February 2011

    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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  • Binder photo lucimakesfabcake

    05 April 2011

    lucimakesfabcake rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    perfect :)

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  • Binder photo Laurenamy1

    06 April 2011

    Laurenamy1 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    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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  • Binder photo masterfox

    19 April 2011

    masterfox rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    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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  • Binder photo ChirpyChick

    17 July 2011

    ChirpyChick rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    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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  • Binder photo kayp

    15 September 2011

    kayp rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    Didn't taste very good

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  • Binder photo Faye Wade

    20 September 2011

    Faye Wade rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    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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  • Binder photo Kathleen

    11 November 2011

    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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  • Binder photo Emdeans

    19 June 2012

    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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  • Binder photo heather

    14 March 2013

    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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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Make 24

Easily doubled

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 10 mins

Vegetarian

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)
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Per biscuit

149 kcalories, protein 1.0g, carbohydrate 24.0g, fat 6.0 g, saturated fat 4.0g, fibre 0.0g, sugar 16.0g, salt 0.01 g

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