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Ingredients
- 140g Self raising flour
- 110g Margarine
- 40g Sugar - granulated or caster
- ¼ - ½ tsp Ground ginger
Method
- In mixing bowl, mix all ingredients together until a soft dough is achieved.
- Lightly roll in your hands walnut size pieces of mixture and place on oven tray.
- Flatten slightly with fork and bake for about 20 minutes at 180c - until golden brown in colour.
- Carefully remove and place on wire cooking tray.
- EAT AND ENJOY
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Tips
You can freeze the dough and bring out some for each time you want to do some decorating of biscuits with your kids as an activity.
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Add commentIngredients
- 100g Soften unslated butter
- 100g Caster Sugar
- 200g Plain Flour
- ½ Tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 C
- Cream Butter and sugar until creamy and then add vanilla and the egg.
- Sift the dry ingredients together and then add to butter mixture and make into a dough ball
- Put in a plastic bag in the fridge for an hour.
- Use cutters to make shapes and bake in the oven for 10 mins.
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KerryWatkins Fri Oct 29 2010 • Reply
Excellent idea! Very easy to make, kids loved them with all the 'blood' on them, delicious biscuits, I will make again just for the taste of the biscuits even if its not Halloween...!
Ingredients
- 110g Butter
- 150g plain flour
- 1 egg yolk
- 60g oats
- 1 inch grated ginger
- 100g caster sugar
- FOR DECORATION
- almonds
- red icing
Method
- 1. mix the biscuit mioxture into a ball
- 2. Put in a bag and put in the fridge for half an hour
- 3. Roll out into finger shaped biscuits and place 1 almond at the top as a nail
- 4. Cook for 12 mins - 190C
- 5. When cool take off the almond and stick back with goey red icing - I use shop writing icing and make it look like blood is oosing out of the nail
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Add commentneets Fri Feb 18 2011 • Reply
great quick recipe!
simonnch Thu Feb 17 2011 • Reply
this recipe is based on an old 18thC.recipe called snickerdoodle cookies made with cinnamon instead of ginger
Savage Mon Aug 16 2010 • Reply
made these the other day, very good simplicity to taste ratio! next time i make them ill probably whack a bit more ginger in tho, not that its not enough tho, especialy if kids are having them, tis perfect! ( i just really like ginger)
Sammio Sun Jan 10 2010 • Reply
Made these with my children and used different shaped cutters. They also decorated them with icing pens and silver balls when they were cooled. So easy and delicious!!!!
niamh96 Sat Jan 9 2010 • Reply
yum yum
Stacey Bramley Sat Sep 12 2009 • Reply
Good recipe, tasty crumbly biscuits. I had to turn the temp down though, maybe my oven is stronger.
Curly Mon Apr 13 2009 • Reply
Today I made these with my 17 month old son. We added broken White chocolate buttons to the mix.
So easy, quick and perfect to do with kids.
His little mates enjoyed them too.
Ally catt Fri Feb 6 2009 • Reply
Really easy & really delicious!!! YUMMY!!!!
Emmaaa Mon Dec 8 2008 • Reply
Everything is summarise into the last comments, simple and delicious!
LisaBoo! Mon Sep 22 2008 • Reply
I just made these biscuits and they're fab!so easy to make,and simple ingredients,cheers!x
Smiler Family Fri Oct 5 2007 • Reply
You would be surprised how easy these are to make and so yummy tasting.