Strawberry biscuits

AUTHOR
Bo Carpenter
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 40
  • 100 g Butter
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 200 g Flour
  • 350 g Icing sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 knife tip Vanilla extract
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
  • 7-10 Tbsp green and red food colouring paste
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film
  • baking paper
  • 3 freezer bag or disposable piping bag

Directions

  1. 1

    Cut butter into pieces. Separate egg. Knead flour, 100 g icing sugar, salt, egg yolk, vanilla extract and butter with your hands to a smooth dough. Wrap the dough in foil and chill for approx. 45 minutes

  2. 2

    Roll out the dough on a floured work surface until it is about 3 mm thin and cut out small (2,5 x 4 cm) and large (5 x 6,5 cm) strawberries. Knead, roll out and cut out the dough again and again. Put the biscuits on 2 baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) one after the other for approx. 8 minutes. Remove the cookies and let them cool down on a cake rack

  3. 3

    Sift 250 g icing sugar into a bowl. Mix with 4 tablespoons of water and lemon juice to a glaze. Colour 2 tablespoons of icing green. Colour 1 tablespoon of icing light red. Colour the rest of the icing red. Fill into freezer or piping bag and cut off a small corner. Spread the dark red glaze evenly over the biscuits. Decorate with green and light red icing like strawberries. Let the biscuits dry for about 1 hour