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Biscuits
75g unsalted butter, softened
100g caster sugar
1 free range organic egg (L)
250g Zeeland flour
2 tablespoon cocoa powder, sifted
Optional
100g dark chocolate
Golden sprinkles with stars
For Diwali, we're baking festive biscuits in beautiful colours, we're making fireworks biscuits. The biscuits are delicious chocolate biscuits, they are the dark background that represents the night sky. We pipe on icing to look like fireworks. We also add little golden stars, here and there. We want to make the biscuits very pretty because Divali is almost here!
How to make Fireworks Biscuits
Mix butter and sugar until it's creamy.
Scrape the edges of the mixing bowl.
Mix in the egg until combined.
Add the vanilla and mix it in briefly.
Scrape the edges of the bowl clean.
Sift flour and cocoa and stir it together.
Add the flour gradually to the dough.
Knead the mixture nice and smooth by hand into a smooth dough.
Wrap the dough and place it for 30 minutes in the fridge.
Knead half of the dough briefly soft.
Roll the dough until 0.5cm thickness and cut out circles.
Preheat the oven to 180°C and place waxed paper on the baking tray
Place the biscuits on the tray.
Bake the biscuits for 7-10 minutes.
Knead the remaining dough briefly.
Cut star shapes of 0.5 cm thickness.
When the first biscuits leave the oven and cool on the baking tray for 10 minutes, you slide in the stars
Transfer the circles to a wire rack.
Bake the stars for 10-12 minutes.
Bring a layer of water to the boil in a pan and place an ovenproof dish on top
Melt the chocolate au bain marie.
Dip the biscuits into the chocolate.
Let the chocolate set.
While the chocolate on the biscuit will set you make Royal Icing
First we decorate the stars (without chocolate) and then the circles (with chocolate)
Spoon ¼ of the white icing in a piping bag.
Stir red food colouring into ¼ of the icing.
Stir yellow food colouring into ¼ of the icing.
Stir blue food colouring into ¼ of the icing.
Spoon the different colours of royal icing into separate piping bags.
Shubh Diwali! - Happy Diwali!