Shopping list for 25 biscuits
150g softened butter
150g caster sugar
1 small free range organic egg (room temp)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
250g all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
4x 115g Baker's icing sugar
4 x 33g pasteurized egg whites
4x ¼ teaspoon lemon juice
food colouring, in 4 colours
small disposable piping bags
We bake our favorite cookie for almost every festive day, we would love to do the same for Diwali. The dough is quicly made. But how to find a cookie cutter for this beautiful festival?
Fortunately, there is Koek-It, an online bakery supplier with a lot of cookie cutters, but sadly non for Diwali. What they do have is a DIY kit! So super fast we made a cutter ourselves, easy peasy with the description (which is included) in hand!
How to bake Diwali cookies
Make the dough using our recipe on PDF
This is how the set looks!
Get the dough from the fridge.
Dust your workspace with flour.
Knead the dough briefly by hand.
Cut out the biscuits (It works great!).
Place on a baking tray lined with waxed paper.
Place the biscuits 15 - 30 mins in the fridge.
Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160°C Fan
Slide the biscuits in the middle of the oven.
Bake in 8 - 10 minutes golden brown.
Allow the biscuits to cool comepletely.
While the biscuits are cooling you make royal icing in 4 pretty colours
First we make 2 colours
Sift the icing sugar.
Divide the sugar between 4 bowls.
Whisk the egg white into the sugar.
Stir in the lemon juice.
Stir in a tiny bit of food colouring.
First we make pink and green.
Fill 2 bags with icing, cut off the tip.
*While the pink and green icing sets you stir yellow and blue icing
Pipe a thin line of icing all around and let it set for a moment.
Fill up the biscuits with icing and allow it to set.
Colour the 3th and 4th bowl of icing yellow and blue
Now pipe yellow biscuits in the same way.
Dot the biscuits and let the dots dry completely.
Serve the biscuits on a pretty platter and lit the candles.
Shubh Diwali - Happy Diwali!