Delicious Easter Biscuit Recipe From Honeywell Biscuits

Honeywell Biscuits’ Easter biscuit recipe!

Our friends at Honeywell Biscuits (formerly Honeywell Bakes) specialise in making bespoke hand-iced biscuits. We’re so grateful that they’ve shared a yummy Easter biscuit recipe with us.

Honeywell Biscuits Easter biscuits using an egg cookie cutter

Makes about 24 medium sized iced Easter biscuits. A great children’s Easter biscuit recipe to try with your kids!

Ingredients: Easter Sugar Cookies

• 200g salted soft butter
• 200g caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 400g plain flour
• 2 teaspoons almond extract (or use vanilla extract if you prefer)

Icing

• Ready to roll icing (also sometimes called fondant or sugar paste icing)
• Yellow, blue and orange food colouring
• Black food colouring or black sugar pearls

You will also need an Easter biscuit cutter e.g. egg-shaped cookie cutter

Method for making your Easter sugar cookies

• Cream the butter and the sugar together, then add the egg and almond essence. Beat until well combined.
• Add flour and mix until it forms a dough.
• Roll out between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper. Refrigerate for 1 hour, wrapped in the greaseproof paper.
• Peel off the greaseproof paper and cut out your egg shapes on a lightly floured surface.
• Place about an inch apart on a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.
• Pop them back in the fridge for 30 minutes, or in the freezer for 10 minutes. If you skip this step, your Easter biscuits will probably grow in the oven!
• Bake at 160°C for 8-12 minutes depending on the size of your biscuits. When they are ready they will be lightly golden at the edges. Allow to cool completely.
• Decorate your biscuits using the ready to roll fondant icing. Colour some of the icing yellow using a little food colour. Gel colour is best if you can get it, as liquid colour can make the icing sticky. If it does become sticky, knead a little icing sugar into it and leave for 10 minutes to harden up (your hands will have made it warm).
• Roll out the fondant icing onto a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Cut out egg shapes and attach to the biscuits by lightly brushing them with a little bit of water first.

• Then, using the Easter egg cookie cutter again, cut out extra yellow egg shapes. Turn the cutter around and cut out wings using the top part of the egg shape.

• Then using either a little flower shape cutter or a sharp knife cut out a little half flower shape to look like fluff and attach to the top of the chick’s head.
• Dye a small amount of icing orange, and then cut out beaks and feet by hand or using small cookie cutters. Use a tiny bit of water to attach them to the chick.

• Now dye some icing black and roll into tiny balls for eyes, or use little black sugar pearls.
• To make chicks coming out of an egg, dye some icing blue, and cut out an egg shape instead of making yellow wings. Cut a zigzag halfway up the blue egg, and attach to the chick biscuit to look like egg shell.

Looking for other great Easter activities? You may also be interested in:

• Inspiring Easter Bible verses to help you reflect.
• Philippa Hanna Lent devotions.
• Lent for children activities for the holidays.

Find out about Honeywell Biscuits and their delicious baked goods on Instagram.