Celebrating Mothers: Baking with Life is Knutts
It’s a pleasure to introduce the lovely Gemma from www.lifeisknutts.com for day three of Celebrating Mothers week. Gemma is an amazing Mummy to three adorable little boys, a fantastic blogger and friend, and a lover of gin. She’s also an amazing baker, her cakes are fabulous, and it’s an honour to share her recipe for simple custard flavour biscuits.
They are literally fool proof. You don’t even need a cutter to cut the biscuits out and it’s something the kids can easily get involved in, with minimal stress for the grown ups who are helping. Perfect!
So folks, pull on your aprons, roll up your sleeves and get creative with the kids in the kitchen.
Ingredients
- 75g Softened Unsalted Butter
- 75g caster sugar
- 100g Organic Self Raising White Flour
- 75g custard powder (like Birds)
- 1 egg
- 80g White cooking chocolate
- 200g Roll out (fondant) Icing
Method
- Pre heat the oven to 180C and line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg, self raising flour and custard powder. Mix until smooth and the mixture forms a soft dough.
- Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface and use a circularbiscuit cutter to cut your biscuits out.
- Transfer the biscuits to your lined baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes, until pale and slightly golden.
- Once cool, melt the white chocolate and drizzle it over half the biscuits to decorate. Then roll out the fondant icing and cut using the same cutter you used to do the biscuits. Stamp with your desired message. Decorate the remaining biscuits with the icing discs, using any leftover melted white chocolate as ‘glue’.
You can decorate the biscuits any way you see fit. As it’s mother’s day, I thought I would put in a little more effort and on some of the biscuits, I stamped a message into some Roll out Icing to say something lovely about my mum. You can write whatever you like on them this way to make them completely personal and the set of stamps only cost me about £3 from Tiger (you can also get them from various places online, just google ‘biscuit alphabet stamps’ and they should come up).
Once set, wrap in some greaseproof paper and tie with string to make a rustic, but lovingly made, gift for any of the ladies in your life.
These look amazing and I’ve already got the ingredients in the cupboard, we all know what I’m doing on my day off off tomorrow now! #bestandworst
Ooh I bet they are lovely, I’m terrible at baking! xx
home made presents are the best, I usually make my mother in law a cake, but it would be nice to get the kids to bake their grandma some biscuits. I’ve never tried making custard biscuits before.
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Me either! Gemma is full of good ideas, I’m a terrible baker but we might attempt them! xx
They’re ace, Gemma! x
She’s the best at baking! Her cakes are AMAZING!!! xx
These biscuits look really fab and not too difficult – I’m not much of a baker! But I’m loving the stamps which I must get from Tiger. #brillblogposts
Me too! I’m a terrible baker, and cook, but these look like fun and the kids would love them! xx
These look professional! Love the yellow colour! Hope you have a fab Mother’s Day and thanks for sharing with #bestandworst x
Don’t they just? Not sure mine would look as professional! xx
A lovely and simple recipe, perfect for that homemade gift. The stamp is a fab idea, gives that little bit of special about them.
They are lovely aren’t they! I’m not much of a baker but Gemma is amazing! xx
These look great, love the yellow – perfect for spring x
They are gorgeous aren’t they! xx
Well I love custard – and I love biscuits so I would so love these! I might have to make these with my kids at the weekend!
Me too! Perfect combination! xx
These sound really tasty, and definitely a recipe that the kids could make themselves. I love the idea of stamping little messages on them too, so personal.
Mine are desperate to make them. we’ve been waiting for a rainy day but the weather has been too lovely! No complaints though!
What a lovely idea and recipe. Love the stamped messages. I’ll be putting this recipe in to my book for future use! #bestandworst
They look great don’t they? I’m not sure mine would look as good as Gemmas! xx
What a lovely idea, they look fabulous
I’m assured they tasted great too! xx
These look fab – so pretty . Thanks for linking up to #sharewithme
I’m told they were delicious too! xx
These are so utterly perfect, wow! Must make them! Happy Mother’s Day you amazing lady, feel very lucky to have connected to you thanks to blogging x
Thank you so much. I hope you had a wonderful day, you absolutely deserved it!! xxx