Vanilla Star Biscuits – A lovely soft baked biscuit covered in fondant. Great for teacher’s thank you gifts or stocking fillers or for enjoying at home with your family.
A great festive treat that the children will love to help make and of course eat ….
Equipment:
2 baking trays covered in baking paper
1 star cookie cutter
Rolling pin
Vanilla Star Biscuits Recipe
Course: SnacksCuisine: BritishDifficulty: Medium10
servings45
minutes15
minutes230
kcalVanilla Star Biscuits – A lovely soft baked biscuit covered in fondant. Great for teacher’s thank you gifts or stocking fillers or for enjoying at home
Ingredients
12 oz Plain Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
A tiny pinch of salt
4 oz Light Brown Sugar
4 oz Butter
1 egg
1.5 -2 tbsp Golden Syrup
A few drops of Vanilla Essence
- For The Topping
250 g White Fondant Icing
Edible sparkles or edible glitter spray
Edible Silver Balls
1 tbsp Apricot Jam
Icing sugar to roll out and to decorate
Directions
- Pre heat your oven to 160 Degrees
- Put flour, baking powder, caster sugar,salt and butter in your mixing bowl and gently rub together with your fingertips so that the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs
- Add the egg, golden syrup and vanilla essence and mix together with a fork
- With your hands gently knead together to make a ball
- Put the mixture in a freezer bag and place in the fridge for 25-30 minutes
- Take out the cookie dough and sprinkle your surface with icing sugar
- Roll out the dough quite thickly and cut out as many star shapes as you can with the mixture
- Place on the baking trays lined with baking paper and place in the oven for 15-20 minutes
- When cooked- take out of oven and place on a cooling rack and let your cookies cool completely
- Use some icing sugar to roll out your white icing- using the same star shaped cookie cutter cut out enough stars to go on each of your biscuits
- Brush the cookies with a little apricot jam and stick on the fondant stars
- Brush a little water onto the spikes of the fondant stars and stick on a silver ball on each spike
- Sprinkle a bit of edible little or spray onto the cookies
Enjoy with a glass of milk or something a little stronger
