Tag: baking

This video features Gizzi Erskine whipping up a classic holiday favourite of Easter cookies with the help of the unrefined sugar specialists – Billingtons and Bakingmad.com. So round up the kids, get your apron on and try out some of the great recipes from bakingmad.com. Ingredients 90g Butter, softened 100g Billingtons Golden Caster Sugar 1 Egg ½ tsp Vanilla Extract 200g Plain Flour ½ tsp Baking Powder ½ Salt Makes about 20 cookie cutters depending on the size of the cutter -Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and set aside -In a large bowl cream the butter and sugar until pale -Beat in the egg and vanilla extract -Add the flour to the butter mix and mix until the dough is formed -Wrap the cookie dough in cling and chill for at least one hour -Preheat the oven to 170 C/fan 150 C -Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to about 0.5cm -Cut out the cookies and transfer to baking sheets -Roll up the trimmings and repeat stages above to make more cookies -Bake for 8-12 minutes until golden -Remove and transfer to a cooling wire and leave until completely cool before decorating.