Birthday Biccies.
Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, birthday biccies. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Birthday Biccies is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They're fine and they look fantastic. Birthday Biccies is something which I've loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook birthday biccies using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Birthday Biccies:
- {Get of biccies/cookies.
- {Take 2 stick of butter, softened/room temperature.
- {Take 1/2 cup of caster sugar.
- {Get 1 of egg yolk.
- {Take 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- {Take 1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
- {Prepare 1 tbsp of custard powder (optional).
- {Prepare of icing.
- {Prepare 1 cup of icing/ confectioner's sugar.
- {Make ready 1 of few drops of food colouring.
- {Make ready 2 tbsp of warm water.
- {Prepare of decoration.
- {Take 1 of mini marshmallows.
- {Make ready 1 of tube of black 'writing' icing.
Steps to make Birthday Biccies:
- Mix the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl..
- Mix in the egg yolk and vanilla..
- Sift in the flour and stir in gently, using your hands to form it onto a ball of soft dough..
- Wrap dough in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes to an hour to chill/rest..
- Take dough out, cut in half, take one half and roll out on a floured surface..
- Cut shapes and place on baking sheets..
- Bake at 180C for 10-12 minutes. You may need to turn the tray around if obe side is getting darker than the other..
- Remove to a wire rack to cool..
- Repeat with the rest of the dough..
- Once cool, make the glacé icing by putting the sugar in a bowl, add the colouring, then gradually adding the water, stirring. Adjust with a little more water or sugar if needed to make a smooth, glossy but not too runny icing..
- To flood the cookies, put the icing ib a piping bag with a very small round hole in the tip. 'Draw' around the outline of the cookie, then fill the inside of those lines with icing..
- Place mini marshmallows for eyes, while icing is still wet. Allow to set dry before using black icing to finish details like eyes and mouths..
- *To make different colour icing, simply divide the icing sugar in required number of bowls with drops of colouring in separate bowls, mix up with teaspoons of warm water, one at a time until the desired consistency is achieved..
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