YELLOW WELLY BISCUIT

Hand iced biscuit company, Biscuiteers.com have kindly shared their recipe for yellow welly biscuits so give them a go for your Mayday bake sale. INGREDIENTS TO MAKE 24 BISCUITS: • 350g plain flour • 100g self-raising flour • 125g granulated sugar • 125g salted butter, diced • 125g golden syrup • 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste • 1 large egg, lightly beaten • A welly-shaped biscuit cutter or make your own

FOR THE ICING: • 150ml cold water • 900g royal icing mix • Yellow and black food colouring

THE BISCUITS: THE ICING:

1. Sift the flours into a mixing bowl, add sugar and mix well. 1. Add icing mix to the bowl of water and whisk for about 5 minutes until the ingredients form a thick, smooth paste that is bright white 2. Add the butter, then rub together using your fingertips until and has the consistency of toothpaste. the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. 2. Split the icing mix in half. Add yellow icing colour to one half 3. Make a well in the centre and add the syrup, vanilla paste and egg. and black to the other. Pour some of the yellow icing into 4. Mix well and stop as soon as a ball has formed. a piping bag and all the black icing into another. These will be the line icing. Pour the rest of the yellow icing into a squeezy 5. Place the dough onto a worktop. Divide into two and squash bottle for the flood icing. the dough into two even-sized flat discs. 3. The flood icing should be a little runnier than the line icing, so add 6. To roll the dough, place it onto a sheet of parchment, cover with a a bit of water to the basic recipe slowly to get the right consistency. second sheet and use a rolling pin to roll until it is 5mm thick all over. 4. Pipe the outline of the boots and leave to dry for 10 minutes 7. Transfer the dough (still sandwiched between parchment) to a baking at room temperature. tray and place in the fridge for 20–30 minutes before cutting. 5. Fill the boot in with yellow flood icing. 8. Cut your biscuits using the cutter or shape them yourself with a knife and template. 6. Pop the biscuits back onto a baking tray and into the oven on the lowest temperature for 40 minutes. 9. Preheat oven to 170C/350F/gas mark 4. 7. Using the black line icing, add the RNLI letters and the sole 10. Spread the biscuits on a baking tray and bake for 14–18 minutes. of the boot. Then let the line icing dry for 10 minutes or until 11. Cool the biscuits on cooling racks before icing. the icing is completely hard. © Biscuiteers.com Share your biscuits with friends and family – and us too. #MaydayEveryDay

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