Whilst I wasn't able to attend the meeting this month, I didn't want to miss out on the non-Olympic baking fun! I was sat watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony last weekend, and got a sudden urge to bake - so here's my take on the non-Olympic theme: gold medal biscuits to give to people for non-sport related achievements, like this:
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 12-15 minutes
Makes 16 medals
Ingredients:
100g margarine
85g caster sugar
Almond flavouring, to taste
4-5 cherry drops, crushed
170g plain flour
100g white chocolate
Gold edible shimmer spray (I LOVE this stuff!)
Writing icing, to decorate (optional)
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
- Beat the margarine and sugar together until pale and creamy, then stir in the almond flavouring, crushed cherry drops and flour until the mixture comes together to form a dough.
- Lightly flour the work surface, then roll the dough out to 1 cm thick. Cut circles out and place these onto the prepared baking tray, leaving at least a cm gap between each. cut out a small circle at the top of each cookie for the ribbon, then bake for 12-15 minutes until golden brown. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- Once the cookies are cool, thread a little bit of ribbon through each. Melt the white chocolate and then spread generously over the top of each cookie, then leave to one side to set.
- Once the chocolate has set, spray the cookies gold by following the directions on the can of edible spray. Use your writing icing pen to write on each medal why the receiver deserve this Olymp-bic medal - favourites of mine were "champion eater" and "best helper" :-)
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