Butter Biscuits/Cookies
Recipe: #29628
June 02, 2018
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Dropped, Snacks, Birthday, Game/Sports Day, Picnic, Potluck, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Flour, Butter/Margarine, more
"This is from one of our national supermarkets free monthly magazines, September 2017."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (30.3 g)
- Calories 128.2
- Total Fat - 5.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.3 g
- Cholesterol - 23.9 mg
- Sodium - 6.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 19.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.6 g
- Sugars - 15 g
- Protein - 1.2 g
- Calcium - 5.3 mg
- Iron - 0.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180C.
Step 2
Line two baking trays with baking paper.
Step 3
Sift self-raising flour and custard powder together.
Step 4
Beat butter and sugar together with electric beaters until pale and creamy and then add the egg and beat until just combined and then stir in flour mixture to form a soft dough.
Step 5
Roll tablespoonfuls of the mixture into balls and place onto trays, allowing room for spreading and then flatten slightly using fingertips.
Step 6
Bake for 15 minutes or until lightly golden ad then remove from oven and cool completely.
Step 7
Gradually add 2 to 4 tablespoons water to icing sugar and mix to a thick pourable icing and then spread a little onto each biscuit/cookie and site for 10 seconds and then top with a freckle or sprinkles.
Step 8
NOTE you can tint the icing with a drop of fool colouring if desired.
Tips
No special items needed.