Easy Biscuit Recipe for Cooking with Kids

This is a brilliant butter biscuit recipe for when you want to cut special shapes for an afternoon of fun or for a themed birthday party. This is a great baking recipe for kids to get involved in and have fun in the kitchen, too.

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Top tip from Sam (34): ‘When I’m visiting friends, if there’s something special going on like a baby shower, I use this easy biscuits recipe to make pram and rattle shaped biscuits then I decorate them with pale pink and blue icing. People LOVE getting homemade butter biscuits, it always raises a smile.’

Ingredients

250g butter (cut into small pieces, softened)
140g caster sugar
300g sifted plain flour
1 egg yolk
2tsp vanilla extract

Make the butter biscuits dough

Mix the butter and sugar together until its really light and fluffy looking.
Break the egg and separate the yolk and white, keeping the yolk and adding it to the butter and sugar mix.
Mix in the vanilla extract.
Add half the flour and mix well, then add the rest and mix slowly until you’ve got a nice dough that’s not too wet.
Knead the dough into a ball. Leave it in the bowl and put it in the fridge for half an hour to chill.

Make biscuit shapes

Roll out the dough to about the thickness of a pound coin.
Cut circles with the rim of a clean glass or use cookie cutters to make shapes.
If you want to make more complicated shapes, you’ll find this kind of dough easy to cut however you want, with a small sharp knife.

Bake your butter biscuits

Grease a baking tray and lay out the biscuits with a little gap between each.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (gas mark 4) for 1215 minutes.
Don’t forget that they will harden more when they’re cooling so take them out of the oven when they are still a little bit soft.
Carefully slide them off the tray and cook on a rack.
Decorate them with writing icing and store in an airtight box... if you don’t end up eating them all straight away!