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125g soft butter
125g caster sugar
½free range organic egg, room temp.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
175g plain flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
icing sugar, to dust
various colours fondant icing
edible gold paint and a paint brush
edible black felt-tip pen
Everyone at snazzie loves horses and this year is the Year of the Horse, according to the Chinese Zodiac. So what do we do? You guessed it, we bake biscuits, horses of course. We make them very cute and pretty, they are being decorated with gold, because it's party time!
How to make festive horse biscuits
Make the dough from our recipe, download the PDF and place baking paper on the baking tray
Knead the dough briefly.
Roll out the dough.
Cut out mini-horses.
10 minutes before the horses come out of the refrigerator, you preheat the oven to 170°C
Place the horses 30 minutes in the fridge.
Bake the horsen 7 to 10 minutes.
Allow to cool on a wire rack.
While the biscuits cool we make the decoration for the horses
Dust your workspace with icing sugar.
Roll out the fondant evenly thin.
Cut out horses using the cookie-cutter.
Stick the fondant with a drop of water on the biscuits.
Set the biscuits aside to dry.
Paint golden manes, tails and hooves.
Give the horses an eye with the feltpen.
Give black horses an eye with a sprinkle.
These horses are to cute to eat!
Happy Chinese New Year!