We made some lovely nature themed biscuits, leaf shapes and snails. The colours didn’t come out very well, next time I’ll try gel colours! But you get the idea. I love the inspiration that can come from certain themes. We cut leaf shapes with a knife and rolled up sausages to make our colourful snails. 

You may remember a few weeks ago I shared a fantastic Summer Holiday workbook that Harveys Furniture have create to inspire families to get creative, you can see the workbook here. They tasked me to make something creative with a nature theme and instantly I thought of leaf shaped biscuits, it is nearly autumn after all and they are good shapes for biscuits! 

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Nature themed biscuits

A delicious biscuit that snaps with a crunch.

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour

Servings 20

Author Sonia Constant

Ingredients

• 250 g unsalted butter softened
• 275 g caster sugar
• 2 large eggs lightly whisked
• 450 g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 3 types of Food colouring I used red, yellow and green

Instructions

• In a food processor, blend butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy.
• Gradually add the lighted whisked eggs and blend until combined.
• Sift in the flour and baking powder, blend for a couple of minutes until mixed into a dough.
• Wrap the dough in clingfilm and chill for 2 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 160 degrees (gas mark 3).
• Line a couple of baking sheets with baking paper.
• Split dough into three.
• Mix the food colouring with the three bits of dough, using your fingers.
• Roll out the dough with a rolling pin.
• Cut leaf shapes with a knife.
• Roll out sausage shapes and spiral together to make the snails back, then add another sausage at the bottom for the snail.
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• Leave to cool and eat. Yummy!

Notes

Use gel colouring as the usual food colouring I used did not take very well, as you can see.

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