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
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
10
servings45
minutes15
minutes230
kcalIngredients
12 oz 12 Plain Flour
1 tsp 1 Baking Powder
A tiny pinch of salt
4 oz 4 Light Brown Sugar
4 oz 4 Butter
1 egg
1.5 -2 tbsp Golden Syrup
A few drops of Vanilla Essence
- For The Topping
250 g 250 White Fondant Icing
Edible sparkles or edible glitter spray
Edible Silver Balls
1 tbsp 1 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
