Posted By Laura in Childrens, Crafty Stuff, Easter Gift Ideas, Family Recipes | 2 comments

I spent the most perfect Good Friday making these ‘Easter Egg’ easy Easter Biscuits – the 6yr old did the whole thing with me (after three boys, the patience of a girl with the fiddly bits constantly amazes me) and the big boys came in for the ‘fun’ bit.

Easy Easter Biscuits – What you need:

• 200g butter, at room temperature  (using a buttery spread makes the dough softer when chilled, and easier to roll by small hands)
• 200g caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 400g plain flourTo decorate
• 250g royal icing sugar (we used 500g in the end)
• assorted food colourings
• assorted cake toppings

Easy Easter Biscuits – What you do:

Preheat the oven to Gas 4, 180°C, fan160°C.

1. Place the butter in a large mixing bowl with the caster sugar. Using a wooden spoon beat until light and fluffy.

2. Gradually beat in the egg until well mixed, then gradually add the flour. Use your hands to bring the mixture together to a stiff dough (I actually did the whole of this in my stand mixer). Gather into a ball and chill for 30 minutes.

3. Roll out the dough on a work surface lightly dusted with flour until it’s the thickness of a £1 coin (-ish. When a 6yr old is rolling, we don’t fuss about perfection).

4. Using an oval cutter, a cardboard egg-shaped template, or – as we did – use a cookie cutter and a bottle top to make the outline of two circles, and then cut round them together with a knife to make egg-shaped biscuits, using rolled out trimmings to make more. Don’t worry about the circle marks on the top – they’ll be covered by icing anyway.

5. Place on baking trays and bake in the oven for 6-10 minutes, depending on size, until just golden brown. Ours took the full 10 minutes.

The recipe states ‘makes 18’ – we made 30, and they’re quite large biscuits. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing from the baking tray to cool completely.

6. Now for the fun part: to decorate, make up the royal icing as directed on the packet; we used the whole 500g pack as we had so many biscuits. Divide between 3-4 bowls adding a little food colouring to each bowl. Now just place the bowls plus the toppings on a table, and let the children loose with their imagination.

And just look what you end up with…

These biscuits will keep for between one and two weeks when stored in a sealed cake tin.

Easter Egg Biscuit Recipe originally from Tesco’s Real Food site.