Saturday 24 September 2016

Recipe Post 2016 No.27- Sparkly Star Biscuits!

Hey!

As of now, I'm officially going through my "breakthrough" of being a amateur baking blogger. I have over 3,000 views on my blog and still counting, and the feedback I've received has been delightful! As you can imagine... I am over the moon. But hey, a moon can't shine without stars!

To make what I call sparkly stars, you'll need:

215g of plain flour

1tsp of baking powder

pinch of salt

140g of unsalted butter, cut into small pieces

115g of soft light brown sugar

1tsp of ground cinnamon (if you really have a thing for spice, add 1 1/2tsp)

1 egg yolk

To decorate:

200g of icing sugar 

1tbsp of lemon juice

1/2-1 tbsp of water

Edible decorating balls

Equipment needed:

A sieve
Large mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Rolling Pin
Star cookie cutter
2 large baking trays lined with baking paper
Wire cooling rack
Small mixing bowl
Teaspoon

Method:

Begin by turning the oven on to 180 C/ 350 F/ Gas Mark 4. Sift the flour,baking powder and salt into a large bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.

Following from step 1, rub in the butter using your fingertips until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the brown sugar, cinnamon and egg yolk.

With your hands, gather up the biscuit mixture to form a soft dough, Lightly, flour the work surface and rolling pin before rolling out the dough until it's around 5mm thick.

Manoeuvre your star cookie cutter in order to stamp out 20 biscuits, carefully placing 10 biscuits onto each baking sheet.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, removing them from the oven and leaving the biscuits to cool a little. Eventually, move to a cooling wire rack. When your biscuits are in the oven, a aroma of warm cinnamon wafts around the kitchen, which I find comforting, reminding me of the coming of Autumn and Winter.

To create the icing for your biscuits, set the icing sugar in a small bowl. Add the lemon, stirring in the water a little at a time to produce "smooth" icing.

Spread this over each biscuit using the back of a teaspoon and decorate with edible decorating balls. And there you go!

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Before this post ends... 

  
๐Ÿ’  I really like Sia's new release- The Greatest. What song have you
heard which you particularly  like?





๐Ÿ’  Zoella's blog seems to be getting better by the minute! 







๐Ÿ’  Apple yogurt parfaits are a fall must










๐Ÿ’  Check out my SnapChat account for updates on my baking, sneak peeks of my next blog posts, etc,etc. Name: @sweetreats



๐Ÿ’  Closer by  Chainsmokers and Halsey is another one of my -repeatedly play tunes.
๐Ÿ’  I will be posting my Blogger Recognition Award possibly next week.

๐Ÿ’  Thank you SO much for your kind comments last week.

๐Ÿ’  Happy Autumn!












#sweetreats xxx 







5 comments:

  1. Congrats! I always love lusting over your baking :)

    pinksmartiesblog.blogspot.co.uk

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  2. These are so so cute! ANd your sucess makes me so happy!
    xx sofia
    www.lifefromsofia.blogspot.com

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  3. AWW,thank you for your comment!

    #sweetreats xxx

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  4. Your blog post made me hungry. :) And Closer by the Chainsmokers have been my favorite song too for the past month!

    Joanne at Urhappybunnie

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  5. Thank you SO much. At least,I'm not the only one obsessing over Closer!๐Ÿ˜Š

    #sweetreats xx

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