Tuesday 22 April 2014

Jammy Smiles Biscuits


This weeks baking boredom buster is the  accomplishment of making a jammy dodger or in my case a jammy smile. I am mastering my skills I hope to make a Victoria sponge cake one day whilst this is not hard in some peoples eyes, I am rather late to the baking and cooking bandwagon, but as they say you are never to old to learn new skills.



125g unsalted butter or low fat spread
75g Caster sugar or sugar substitute
200g Plain flour
1-2 semi skimmed milk or skimmed milk
Tea spoons of strawberry or raspberry jam or infact any jam for the number of biscuits that you bake.
Icing Sugar to dust ( optional)


1. Preheat the oven to 180 C ( Gas mark 4)
Either line 2 large baking trays with greaseproof paper or my personal favourite use Lakeland Cake release on the baking tray.

2. beat together the butter and sugar. Add the flour and milk, and bring together until it make one big ball.


3 Divide the mixture into 4

Sprinkle your rolling pin and work surface with a little flour and roll until the dough is around the thickness of a one pound coin.

4 Using your desired cutters of choice cut out your desired shapes ( mine was smiley face shales from Lakeland )

5 Bake for 7-9 minutes till the biscuits are slightly golden brown around the edges 
. Leave on the trays to cool, then transfer to a cooling rack.

6. Now you can just leave it at jam in the middle but you don't want to do that do you ?!

7 Treat yourself and make some buttercream and then place the jam on top ! Jamtastic

 100g butter, 200g icing sug, up to 1tbsp milk 1tsp vanilla. Beat butter, beat in icing sugar & vanilla, add milk til fluffy.



You feel sad that happy little smiley is going to it's dome don't you?


Nahhh


28 comments:

  1. Very nice! And a Victoria Sponge is really not difficult...give it a go!

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  2. ooh they look fab, the kids would love those :)

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  3. Oh wow! These look fantastic. Definitely better than 'shop bought'. Going to have to give these a go. Thank you.

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  4. Mmm these looks lovely! Much better than from the packet! x

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  5. Clever you - these biscuits look fab!

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  6. Will definitely have to give these a go - yummy!

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  7. They look better than Jammy Dodgers x

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  8. Oooh when I saw the photos I thought they were shop bought - how very talented :)

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  9. We have these cutters, my children love using them!

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  10. They are so cute and look delicious! Good luck with the Victoria Sponge!

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  11. Love! I have to have these cutters. Could fill them with chocolate too.

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  12. Your cutters are fantastic! I am going to have a look at Lakeland and see if they still do them. I love the idea of a smiley biscuit and home-made too!

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  13. What lovely looking biscuits, and it's great that they're home-made. I'm going to get myself to Lakeland to look out for those cutters.

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  14. These look really fun! I bet my kids would love making them

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  15. These are so cute I love the smiley faces and stars.

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  16. Please bake me some and send it to me! They look gorgeous!

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  17. Oh my goodness those are amazing! I don't think I would want to bite into them. x

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  18. I'm thinking of having a go at these but with nutella in the middle for a change!

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  19. Mmmm they look so good, my little ones, and probably the big ones, my 9yo and hubby would love them too x

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  20. aw haha they look great my kids would enjoy those very much

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  21. Haha these are brilliant! I've never thought of recreating biscuits like this, good work!

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  22. These are amazing! Jammy dodgers are the best biscuits and your smile ones look even cooler

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  23. Crackin!
    I've been looking for a jammy biscuit recipe.
    Will be trying this out. x

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  24. They look yummy - we make something similar but I've never thought to use Buttercream x

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