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Pudsey biscuits

Name: Pudsey biscuits
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: Makes around 20 biscuits
Ingredients: 200g unsalted butter softened; 200g golden caster sugar; 1 large egg; ½ tsp vanilla extract; 400g plain flour plus extra for dusting; 25g icing sugar; 50g white fondant; coloured icing pens (writing quality); 25g black sugar paste; hundreds and thousands or sweets to decorate (optional)

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Makes around 20 biscuits

Easy

Prep: 1 hr

Cook: 20 mins

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Bake a batch of our cute Pudsey bear biscuits for BBC Children in Need. They're easy to make and kids will love getting creative with the decoration

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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200g unsalted butter

softened
200g golden caster sugar
1 large egg
½ tsp vanilla extract
400g plain flour

plus extra for dusting

To decorate

25g icing sugar
50g white fondant
coloured icing pens

(writing quality)
25g black sugar paste
hundreds and thousands

or sweets to decorate (optional)

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Nutrition: per biscuit

kcal211
fat9g
saturates5g
carbs30g
sugars14g
fibre1g
protein2g
salt0.02g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Put the butter in a bowl and beat it with electric beaters until soft and creamy. Beat in the sugar, then the egg and vanilla, and finally the flour to make a dough. If the dough feels a bit sticky, add a little bit more flour and knead it in.
step 2

Roll the dough out so it’s about the thickness of a £1 coin. Cut out shapes using a Pudsey bear cutter or cut around a template you have made. Re-roll off-cuts and repeat.
step 3

Transfer the biscuits to the baking sheet and bake for 8-10 mins or until the edges are just brown. Leave to cool completely.
step 4

To decorate the biscuits: Mix the icing sugar with enough water to make a stiff paste then roll the white fondant out to 5mm thick and cut into strips to make Pudsey’s eye bandage. Stick it on with the white icing. Decorate with polka dots using coloured icing pens. Make his eye, nose and mouth with the black sugar paste and add a little dot of white icing to the eye. Stick the features down with more icing. Repeat the process with most of the biscuits and decorate the rest with icing simply sprinkled with hundreds and thousands. Will keep for three days in a biscuit tin.

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