Happy St.George's Day or not as it would seem! Politicians were posting away over the Easter weekend to wish everyone a happy St.George's day, but the Church of England had to wade in today to explain why St.George's day doesn't fall on the 23rd April this year, "Church rules state that in order to prevent an overlap with a major festival like Easter, if a saint’s day falls during Easter week, it is “translated” to the following week." (
ITV.com)
But with the Easter holidays over and Maz's Kitchen back in teaching Year 7, 8 and 9's today, the lesson plans were set and you know what, these biccies are too good to miss and unfortunately we don't teach at this particular school on Monday's so, we thought, why not, the cooking classes can't miss out on this tasty baked treat.
If you'd like to try out this recipe with your Little Cook's at home, we'd love to know how you get on :)
St George's Day Biscuits Will make: 8 biscuits approx
Prep time:
30 minutes
Total time:
40-45mins
Biscuits:
90g Butter
125g Plain Flour
55g Caster Sugar
Glacé icing:
100g icing sugar
1 drop Vanilla essence
Red food colouring paste
Method:
- Pre-heat fan oven to 160C
- Rub butter into flour to resemble breadcrumbs
- Stir in sugar
- Bring very crumbly mix together with hands
- Roll out to approx 3 mm, cut out into rectangles, 50mmx30mm approx
- Bake 8-10 mins
- Whilst biscuits baking, make your glacé icing, sift the icing sugar, split the mix in half and add few drops of red food colouring to one half
- Once biscuits ready, take out and cool on rack
- Ice with white icing using the back of a teaspoon or knife to cover the biscuit and pipe red icing to resemble St George’s flag
Top Tips: - If using colouring paste, just use 1 tip of cocktail stick as it’s very intense, adjust to get the desired red - 1 drop if using liquid
- You can add other flavourings to your biscuit mix, try almond essence or orange, lemon zest in the mix and instead of water in the glacé icing, use the juice from the fruit to give it extra flavour
Happy Baking! Let us know how you and your little one got on in the comments section of our blog page.Maz's kitchen offers school's/groups extra curricular cooking classes, school holiday cookery classes, little and big cooks cooking parties, personal chef for dinner parties, celebrations, hen's parties, gatherings, corporate events and private chef tuition in your home.
Get in touch if you'd like to get IN or OUT of your kitchen, Maz and her team will take care of the rest.
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