For those of you that watched the Great British bake off, you may recall Mary-Ann making these in Episode 4, which was primarily biscuit week. I for one really enjoyed the show, and thought it was a real close call between Mary-Ann and Jo, both of whom I thought were brilliant in their own ways. I am now following both of their blogs, as they have some fantastic ideas.
These biscuits were a damn bugger to make despite following the recipe from Mary- Ann's blog here, mine didn't quite turn out looking as lovely as hers, but they do taste really good! Maybe I will try the Croquembouche next...err no .
I had real trouble getting the mixing to pipe from the bag, it was far too stiff, god knows how she managed it, I beat the butter until it was really soft, but the volume of flour and cornflour made it just like pastry ready to roll, which is correct for biscuits ( it should be very short) I had to add some milk just to get it soft enough so as to be able it to squeeze through a big star tip in the pipe bag, even then it was still really difficult and I gave up and rolled and cut the rest out into heart shapes, they still looked nice. I just made some ordinary buttercream and sandwiched them together with that and some strawberry jam.
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| Draw a line of gel food colouring, liquid is no good |
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| Ready to pipe |
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| Not bad for first attempt |
The kids are sorted for a treat today then.
Happy baking!
Yummy!!!
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Ooooooh, YUM! :)
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