{"id":2080,"date":"2018-03-05T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2018-03-05T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:28:18","slug":"going-traditional-with-an-easter-biscuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/going-traditional-with-an-easter-biscuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Going traditional with an Easter biscuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EASTER-BISCUITS-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Easter is a very special time of the year for those who celebrate, however even if one does not celebrate the religious occasion, it has well become a commercial celebration for all, with grocery store shelves packed with chocolate eggs, bunnies and more!<\/p>\n

This Easter, instead of giving the standard chocolates, why not give a traditional stack of wrapped homemade biscuits with royal icing that are simple to make and great tasting. Plus, you can make a large batch to go a long way.<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

250g butter<\/p>\n

200g castor sugar<\/p>\n

5ml vanilla essence<\/p>\n

2 large eggs (beaten)<\/p>\n

480g cake flour (sifted)<\/p>\n

10ml baking powder<\/p>\n

5ml salt<\/p>\n

25ml water<\/p>\n

Icing<\/strong><\/p>\n

375ml icing sugar<\/p>\n

1 large egg white<\/p>\n

4 drops lemon juice<\/p>\n

Food Colouring (your choice)<\/p>\n

Icing decorations (your choice)<\/p>\n

Method: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Heat the oven to 180\u00baC<\/p>\n

Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy and light in colour.<\/p>\n

Add the vanilla essence and eggs. Mix well.<\/p>\n

Sift all the dry ingredients together and add to the creamed mixture and mix thoroughly. Add water if necessary.<\/p>\n

With a rolling pin, roll out the batter to a thickness of 3mm and then using cookie cutters, cut out into your preferred shapes.<\/p>\n

Place each biscuit onto a greased baking tray and bake for 8 \u2013 10 minutes. Once baked, cool on a wire rack before icing.<\/p>\n

For the icing: sift the icing sugar, then beat the egg white and add it to the icing sugar. Mix until a smooth semi-thick piping consistency forms. Add the lemon juice.<\/p>\n

Spoon some white icing into a piping bag or small plastic bag and push to one corner to make a piping bag. Snip off the corner and ice the biscuits. If you would like colour, add food colouring to the remaining icing mixture and add to a different piping bag.<\/p>\n

Decorations such as silver chocolate balls or chocolate chips etc can also be used.<\/p>\n

Once all the icing has set, you can stack a few of the biscuits on top of one another and tie them together with ribbon, or perhaps add them into a mason jar and finish off with ribbon and a tag that states \u201cYou\u2019re a biscuit! Happy Easter!\u201d<\/p>\n

Recipe provided by The View Boutique Hotel & Spa kitchen team at Giorgio\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easter is a very special time of the year for those who celebrate, however even if one does not celebrate the religious occasion, it has well become a commercial celebration for all, with grocery store shelves packed with chocolate eggs, bunnies and more! This Easter, instead of giving the standard chocolates, why not give a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}