Show Mum just how much you love and appreciate her with Siúcra’s home baked treats.
Little kids will be bursting with excitement as they whip up these sweet and sentimental cookies which are perfect for a Mother’s Day celebration.
Ingredients
For the cookies
- 200g butter, at room temperature
- 230g Siúcra Caster Sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 4 tsps. vanilla extract
- 500g plain white flour
- Required: Baking parchment paper
For the icing
- 2 packs of Siúcra Rollout Icing Sugar
- Icing colour – red, purple, blue, yellow, green
- 100 g Siúcra Icing Sugar
- Letter cookie cutters plus other shapes which are optional e.g. circles / butterflies / hearts
- 350g pack of Siúcra Instant Royal Icing to stick
- Sugar decorations and icing tools (optional)
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 190°C (170°C for fan oven) / 375°F.
2. Beat the butter and Siúcra Caster Sugar together with an electric whisk until combined.
3. Add one egg and beat. Then add the second egg and the vanilla extract and beat again.
4. Finally add in the flour at a low speed and mix. Once mixed, form into a ball of dough with your hands.
5. Put the ball of dough onto a work surface that you have lightly dusted with flour.
6. Roll out the dough to approximately 1/2 cm thick with a rolling pin.
7. Cut out shapes using the cookie cutters.
8. Lift carefully onto a baking tray lined with baking parchment.
9. Bake in the oven for 14-15 minutes until golden.
10. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the tray.
11. Divide the Siúcra Rollout Icing Sugar into 6 pieces and knead until softened.
12. To colour the icing, put a small amount of colour onto the white icing and knead it until combined. (You may want to wear gloves when doing this to avoid staining.) Add more colour as required.
13. Using small amounts of food colouring, tint one piece pink (with red), one purple, one blue, one yellow, and one green. Leave the last piece white.
14. Dust your work surface with Siúcra icing sugar.
15. Roll the icing out to a thin layer and cut out the same shapes that you used for the biscuits.
16. Make up the Royal Icing as per pack instructions. Put a few dots of your icing onto the biscuit to act as the glue.
17. Lift the icing shape off the work surface very carefully and place on top of the biscuit.
18. Now it’s time to get creative and decorate as you wish – why not try using different cutters, a stitching tool or even silver and pearl balls!
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