It was grandad’s birthday this week and the little ones wanted to make him a birthday cake, so I thought it was the perfect excuse to get creative with the Disney moulds I have. We used the Mickey Mouse silicon mould and went to town. I felt bad that we all ate him, but it was a lot of fun to make with the children.

Sugar and Spice Easter Nest Biscuits
2017-04-16 08:21:50

Serves 12
These are really easy to make and easy to adapt too!
Prep Time
38 min
Cook Time
12 min
Total Time
50 min
For the Biscuits
- 65 g Lightly Salted Butter , Softened
- 50 g Caster Sugar
- 1 Portion Egg Yolk , 1 Medium sized
- 5 ml Dr. Oetker Madagascan Vanilla Extract
- 125 g Plain Flour , plus extra for dusting
- 5 g Mixed Spice
- 40 g Currants
To Decorate
- 200 g Dr. Oetker Ready to Roll Marzipan
- 5 g Icing Sugar , For dusting
- 30 g Apricot Jam
- Dr. Oetker Chocolate Easy Swirl Cupcake Icing
For the Biscuits
- Line a large baking tray with baking parchment.
- Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and whisk together well until smooth and creamy.
- Whisk in the egg yolk and Vanilla Extract.
- Sift the flour and spice on top and add the currants.
- Mix all the ingredients together until well combined, and then bring the mixture together with your hands to make a fairly soft dough.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently until smooth.
- Roll out thinly to a thickness no greater than ½ cm (1/4 inch). Using a 6cm (2 ½ inch) crinkle edged round cutter, stamp out 12 rounds, re-rolling as necessary and place on the baking trays, spaced a little apart. Prick with a fork.
- Chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200˚C (180˚C fan assisted oven, 400˚F, gas mark 6).
- Bake the biscuits for about 12 minutes until lightly golden round the edges.
- Leave on the tray for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
To decorate
- Using the crinkle cutter from above, cut out 12 circles in the ready rolled Marzipan.
- Brush the tops of the biscuits with jam or honey and stick a Marzipan disc on top when the biscuits have cooled.
- Prepare the can of Easy Swirl Icing as directed and fit the star nozzle on top.
- Pipe a small swirl in the centre of each biscuit to resemble a nest.
- Fill the nest with chocolate eggs, or rolled up marzipan.
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My Family Ties
October 8, 2014What an amazing cake! The perfect cake for any little birthday girl or boy! just fab 🙂 #TastyTuesdays
Hayley @ Hay In A Day
October 8, 2014This looks great! A very professional looking cake! Bet the birthday boy loved it! #tastytuesdays
Honest mum
October 10, 2014Wow what a fab cake! Please do add my badge or link back! Thanks lovely x