Butter Biscuits
This recipe is ideal for making cut-out biscuits to ice for Christmas or parties but are just as nice eaten plain.
Ingredients
85g soft butter, unsalted is best but not essential
100g caster sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
200g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
How to make them
1. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and creamy.
2. Beat in the egg and vanilla essence.
3. In another bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and salt until well combined.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix together gently.
5. If you’ve got time, wrap the dough in clingfilm and flatten a bit, and put in fridge for about an hour to make it easier to handle. If you can’t wait and want to make the biscuits straight away, you may need to use some flour as you roll them out to prevent sticking.
6. Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F / 160C fan oven / Gas Mark 4
7. Sprinkle flour on the work top and roll out the dough to about 5mm thick. Then cut the dough into shapes, keeping the blade of the cutter dusted with flour to prevent sticking.
8. Place on lined baking sheet and bake in the oven for 8 – 10 mins until they are slightly golden around the edges. Cool on rack. Then ice if required using glace icing.
This recipe makes about 20 large biscuits. It is easy to double the quantity and make lots of small biscuits!
Tags: baking powder, butter, caster sugar, eggs, plain flour, salt, vanilla essence