Ingredients
- 200g butter
- 250g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 400g plain flour
- ΒΌ tsp Cream of tartar
- 1 egg white
- Β½ tsp lemon juice
- 300g Icing sugar
Accompaniment
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Description
This is an old recipe to make biscuit dough that you can roll out and use cookie cutters to create shapes
Method
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Preheat the oven to 170g
Put the butter sugar and vanilla into the bowl of a free standing electric whisker. Cream until light fluffy. Add the egg and mix well using a spatula to take off any of the mixture from the sides
Add the flour and cream of tartar and mix but just until it is all combined - dont over mix.
Dust a clean work surface with flour and roll out the dough. Using whatever cookie cuttter shapes you have - cut out the dough and put onto parchment paper on a baking tray.
Cook for 10 -12 mins and then leave to cool on a tray - decorate with royal icing
For the Royal icing
Whisk the egg white with the lemon juice. Then add the sifted icing sugar gradually
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