Easter Biscuits
These simple buttery biscuits remind me of being a child. Easy to make and so delicious. I can remember making them in school and then scoffing a few before delivering the rest home. They are perfect with a cup of tea and I challenge you to eat just one though.
Some recipes put spice in these biscuits, but I prefer them minus the spice. They can also be made with other dried fruits, but I think they really do work best with currants. A bit like another childhood favourite Squashed Fly Biscuits (aka Garibaldi) that wouldn’t be the same if they weren’t made with currants.
My pupils are making these in class soon and they have been excitedly telling me for weeks that they are looking forward to making them. This may not be because we are making these delicious biscuits but because I’m letting them loose on my large collection of biscuit cutters. I’m fully expecting Easter stegosaurus and handbag biscuits. As one child told me yesterday, Easter biscuits are not just for Easter, they are for all year round. Well she’d quite happily eat them all year round and so could I.
You can chill this dough between cutting the shapes and putting in the oven to help the biscuits keep their shape, but to be honest I wasn’t prepared to wait and they work just as well going straight in the oven.
Easter Biscuits
Ingredients
- 40 g butter softened
- 25 g caster sugar plus some for dusting
- 70 g plain flour
- 25 g currants
- 1 egg beaten
Instructions
- Beat together the butter and the sugar until fluffy.
- Stir in the flour and currants until it combines to form a soft dough. If the dough needs a bit of help to come together add a splash of milk.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface until around 5mm thick. Cut out shapes and place on a lined baking tray. Brush the biscuits with beaten egg then dust with the remaining caster sugar.
- Bake at 200°c for 10 minutes until biscuits are golden. Cool on a wire rack then store in an airtight container.
Jules
I mentioned squashed fly biscuits to my boyfriend the other day and he looked at me like I was mad. Glad to hear that you know exactly what I’m talking about, and have also supplied a gorgeous recipe that goes some way to recreating them. Yum!
There’s something really comforting about biscuits like this. Like you said, they always remind me of being a child and being really proud that I managed to bake something. Lovely post — and I LOVE your cutters!
Nice and easy for children to make.
I do envy your biscuit cutter collection and am a massive fan of squashed fly biscuits myself. I most certainly will be following this recipe and love it’s simplicity! Not to mention the wonderful photos :-)
Your photo is fantastic! Have you managed to get many pics on tastespotting recently?
TO be honest I gave up submitting photos about 6 months ago as I was never getting one accepted. Maybe I should try again.
these look so cute and tasty, i think i’ll have to make some for easter this year! i have a bunch of new springtime cookie cutters just waiting to be used :)
These will be the perfect biscuit for your springtime cutters.
Great cookies! And I am thinking mini chocolate chips? Love this recipe!
Mini chocolate chips would be great. I’ve also thought about putting broken mini eggs in them too.
These look great. I have just blogged my Easter effort too!
http://willowcottagegarden.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/easter-egg-birthday-cake/
I tried Easter biscuits last year, but the dough was very greasy. I think I used too much butter. I’ll try these since its starting to get cold here :)
certainly give them a go. If the dough gets too greasy put the dough in the fridge to chill before rolling out, then put the tray of biscuits back in the fridge before cooking.
I need some interpretation -caster sugar? 200c=?F. Butter g=?. Sorry I am not familiar with these terms, but the recipe looks great.
200oc is 400of . As for the butter this recipe is written in grams. I’m not sure what measurements you use but 40g of butter is 1.5 oz. The Delia conversion page is a good place for converting measurements http://www.deliaonline.com/conversion-tables.html