I’m a simple mom and am happiest when I can use one recipe for a multitude of items and so last year Hamish and I created these three cute biscuit gifts from just one recipe.
Recipe
Basic Butter Biscuits
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250g Butter
3/4 cup icing sugar
1 cup Maizena (corn flour)
1/3 cup oil
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
1/2 tsp baking powder
+-2 cups flour
Cream butter and sugar until creamy and white.
Add oil, vanilla essence, maizena and baking powder and mix well.
Add enough flour to make a soft dough.
Roll and cut with a cutter or pipe through a nozzle.
Bake at 180 degrees for 10 – 15 minutes.
Decorate as desired
To make each biscuit
1. Reindeer cookie
You will need to roll out your dough and with a knife cut large heart shapes. Sprinkle with sugar before baking.
To decorate use a paint brush or ear bud dipped into food colouring to draw on facial features.
2. Name banner
I used a large floral shape cutter to help Hamish cut out enough banner shapes to spell out his name.
Ice each biscuit with your favourite icing recipe and using food colouring on an ear bud write your child’s name.
3. Snowflakes
To make the snowflake I used the same floral cutter and iced the cookies in white icing. Hamish then used raisins to form snowflake patterns.
Happy baking
