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200g flour
100g soft white sugar
sachet vanilla sugar
150g cold butter
1 free range egg yolk
20g chocolate, 72% cocoa
75 g icing sugar
few drops of lemon juice
½free range egg white
red food colouring
Today we make sweet little autumn biscuits, small toadstools and little acorns which we have with our tea, we look forward to it already! The dough has to go into the frefrigerator for at least 1 hour so our tea party has to wait a bit, i'm sorry to say.
How to make Dutch Short Bread
Stir flour & baking powder until combined.
Mix the butter and the sugar creamy and fluffy.
Add the egg and the vanilla to the butter mixture.
Mix in small amounts of flour in the butter mixture.
When the dough looks crumbly it is ready.
Tip the dough out the bowl onto wax paper
Knead the dough smooth by hand.
Wrap the dough in cling film then put it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 170°C
Roll the dough to 1cm thickness.
Cut out Autumn shapes.
Place 30 minutes in the fridge.
Bake the biscuits for 6 minutes.
Allow the biscuits to cool completely on a wire rack, plain they are already yummy. But we are having a party so when cooled we decorate the biscuits with a glaze and chocolate.
Stir a glaze of sugar, egg white and lemon.
Make half of the white glaze red.
Brush it onto the toadstool heads.
Allow the red glaze to dry well before you start with white. To apply the collars we use a teaspoon, for the dots a wooden skewer.
Melt chocolate, au bain marie.
Brush it on top half of the acorns.
Strike white collars and dots on the toadstools.
Hurray! The biscuits are ready for tea!
Now we are going to have a lovely tea party with Bear and Doll. And what a fancy tea it is! The beautiful cookies are gone before you know it! (Your mini-monsters turn into cookie-monsters when eating these delicious cookies).