Whether you’re five or fifty and are a dab hand, or not, with a piping bag, this Mother’s Day Biscuit Card is such a lovely, personalised gift for your mother (mum, mom or whatever term you prefer!)
The recipe makes more biscuits than you need but since they freeze so well you can either stamp them out and cook them straight from the freezer, or have them cooked and ready to warm through in the oven for another occasion. And there’s enough icing to decorate about 20 biscuits.
- Makes: about 40
- Prep time: 1½ hours
- Cooking time: 7-9 minutes
Ingredients For the biscuits
- 110g (4oz) unsalted butter, softened
- 75g (3oz) Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Golden Caster Sugar
- 1 large egg yolk
- 200g (7oz) plain flour, plus extra for rolling
- 1 lemon, finely grated rind
- 1½ tbsp milk
For the decoration & icing – enough for about 20 biscuits
- 500g (1lb2oz) Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Royal Icing Sugar
- 75ml (3floz) water
- Violet, mint green & rose paste food colours from www.squires-shop.com
- Mother’s Day card
You will also need a small flower shaped biscuit cutter about 4.5-5cm (1¾-2”) in diameter available from www.squires-shop.com and 2 disposable piping bags.
Method : How to make the Mother’s Day Biscuit Card
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/Fan180°, 400°F, Gas 6.
- Lightly grease 2 baking trays.
- Cream the butter and Golden Caster Sugar together until light and fluffy, then beat in the egg yolk.
- Next, sift in the flour, add the lemon rind and mix well. Add the milk to make a fairly soft dough.
- Knead the mixture on a lightly floured surface and roll out to a thickness of 5mm (¼”). Using the flower cutter stamp out about 40 rounds and place on the baking trays, spaced apart.
- Bake for 7-9 minutes until golden, swapping the trays round halfway through. Remove to a wire rack to cool.
- To make the icing, put the water in a bowl, sift over the Royal Icing Sugar and mix with a wooden spoon until thick, smooth and the consistency of toothpaste.
You will need about one-third of the icing for piping and the rest for flooding the biscuits. Divide the icing between 3 small bowls and colour with your chosen colours, using a toothpick to add a tiny amount, then mix well to achieve the desired shade.
For the icing for flooding, add a few drops of water at a time to 1 of the bowls, stirring until the mixture is smooth and just pourable, just a bit thicker than double cream.
The 2 bowls of icing for piping should be thick enough to hold their shape. Check by dragging a flat-bladed knife through the surface of the icing and count to 10. If the icing surface becomes smooth in anywhere between 5-10 seconds it’s ready. If not, the icing is too thick, so add a splash of water. More sifted icing sugar can be added if it becomes too runny. Divide this icing between 2 piping bags. Cover any unused icing with cling film placed directly on the surface.
Snip a tiny piece off the tip of the piping bags with a pair of scissors. Pipe an outline border with your chosen colour 1cm (½”) above the biscuit, lifting the bag away from the biscuit so that the icing falls onto the surface. This makes it easier to control the piping. Let the icing dry for 10 minutes.
Next, fill in the middle of the biscuits with the flooding icing using a teaspoon and a zig-zag motion. Gently shake the biscuit to help settle the icing. Pop any air bubbles with a pin or toothpick right away otherwise it will pop on its own and leave a hole. Wait for 30 minutes or so until the icing has firmed up, then decorate the middle of the flower biscuit using a contrasting colour.
Place the decorated biscuits on a baking tray and dry out in the oven 140°C/Fan120°, 275°F, Gas 1 for about 15 minutes, slightly longer if you are making larger biscuits. Cool on a wire rack.
To attach the flower biscuit to the card, pipe a little icing over the outline of the back of the biscuit and lightly place it on the card to ‘glue’ it in position. Leave to dry flat for a few hours.
Make-ahead
Make and decorate the biscuits up to 1 week before and store in an airtight container.
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March 26, 2014 @ 9:35 am
wow these look amazing, thanks for sharing the recipe x
March 26, 2014 @ 10:43 am
Biscuits are a lovely idea for Mother’s Day – cheap and easily done by anyone, but requiring time and effort – perfect 🙂
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March 26, 2014 @ 10:50 am
These biscuits look delicious. Thank you for sharing your recipe 🙂 x
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March 26, 2014 @ 11:28 am
Delicious, thanks for the recipe x
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March 26, 2014 @ 5:43 pm
What a fab idea! I would never think of things like that to do. They look great!! x
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March 26, 2014 @ 6:52 pm
that is so clever!
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March 26, 2014 @ 7:34 pm
What a lovely idea. I love a homemade gift/card for Mother’s Day so these would be perfect!
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March 26, 2014 @ 10:13 pm
That’s a great idea, some good ideas for getting the children in the kitchen
March 27, 2014 @ 9:53 am
What a great idea for a more personalised gift.
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March 27, 2014 @ 2:29 pm
I love these, what a perfect, easy Mother’s Day gift!
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March 27, 2014 @ 2:52 pm
What a beautiful idea!! I have to say visiting your blog makes me feel tired! HOW on earth do you do so much and blog about it all??? How many blog posts do you manage to write in a week, in addition to looking after kids, making things etc etc?? Are you Super Woman??!
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March 27, 2014 @ 10:49 pm
That’s lovely! You’re much better at icing than I am 🙂
March 27, 2014 @ 10:52 pm
What an adorable and delicious idea !
March 28, 2014 @ 9:56 am
What a brilliant idea!
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March 28, 2014 @ 11:41 am
Wow, this is just amazing! So lovely and pretty those biscuits are 🙂 And I love the colorful icing ^^
x Donah
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March 29, 2014 @ 9:43 pm
Beautifully decorated biscuits
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March 30, 2014 @ 1:47 pm
So easy to do and such a fab idea!
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March 30, 2014 @ 6:06 pm
These look great, such a good idea 🙂 x
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March 30, 2014 @ 10:29 pm
Really love these! The bright coloured food colouring gels you have used have really given the biscuits the wow factor!
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March 31, 2014 @ 11:22 am
Love these, they are so pretty. Great idea
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March 31, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
Happy Mother’s Day! Those are adorable!
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March 31, 2014 @ 8:14 pm
Wow, these are absolutely gorgeous. Genius idea.
April 1, 2014 @ 2:18 pm
Aww what a lovely idea!! #tastytuesdays xx
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April 1, 2014 @ 8:36 pm
They look so scrummy:)
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April 1, 2014 @ 8:45 pm
What a clever idea to put on a card. #RecipeoftheWeek
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April 1, 2014 @ 8:53 pm
Such pretty biscuits and it’s a lovely idea to put them on the front of a card.
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April 2, 2014 @ 11:18 am
They look tasty, hope they went down well 🙂
April 4, 2014 @ 7:13 am
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April 4, 2014 @ 8:27 am
Thanks so much!
April 4, 2014 @ 11:30 am
Wow that is genius, thanks so much for linking up to #tastytuesdays with your post, please do add my badge or link back. Thanks
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