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Biscuits
75g soft butter
75g fine sugar
½ free-range organic egg, room temperature
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
125g (Zeeland) flour
½ teaspoon of baking powder
Royal Icing
110g baker's icing sugar
25g pasteurized egg whites
½ teaspoon lemon juice
food coloring, red, blue and orange
We never need a reason to bake our favorite vanilla biscuits. But on May 5th, we'll be making red-white-blue Dutch flag biscuits to celebrate our freedom. The Dutch often grumble about the Netherlands but if you go around the globe you are probably happy to live in the Netherlands ;)) We are for sure!
How to make Dutch flag biscuits
Mix de butter and sugar into a creamy mixture.
Meanwhile beat the egg and weigh half.
Add half the egg and the vailla extract.
Stir flour and baking powder then sieve it.
Add the flour in parts to the mixture.
Knead the dough briefly by hand until smooth.
Wrap the dough in cling film, place it in the fridge.
Allow the dough to rest for 1 hour then knead it briefly, place waxed paper on the baking tray
Roll the dough to 1 cm thickness.
Cut out rectangles.
Place the biscuits on the tray.
Put the tray in the fridge for 10 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 175°C
Bake the biscuits for 10-12 minutes.
Allow them to cool on the tray for 5 minutes.
Cool completely on a wire rack.
While the biscuits cool we make royal icing
Put icing sugar and egg white in a bowl.
Stir the icing using a whisk until shiny and smooth.
Stir the lemon juice drops into the icing.
Spoon 1/3 of the white icing into a pointed bag.
Pipe a flag on the biscuits with the thick icing.
Place the biscuits in the fridge so the icing can set.
Thin the icing with egg white and stir in the foodcolouring.
Fill in the biscuits with the colours then let set in the fridge.
Celebrate Liberation Day with biscuits ;))