We use paintbrushes to add the icing to our pretty painted Easter biscuits. These flower and butterfly cookies make such pretty teatime treat. This biscuit dough recipe is perfect for cutting shapes from, as it doesn’t spread in the oven, so you can get really clear definition to your shapes.
How to Make Pretty Painted Easter Biscuits
220g butter, softened
200g caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract (or other extract of your choice)
1 large egg
425g plain flour
Cream together the butter and sugar, add egg and extract, then sift in the flour and combine into a smooth dough. These biscuits will take about 8-10 mins to cook at 180C depending on their size.
We mixed up runny icing by combining icing sugar and hot water, then coloured it using food colouring paste. Then we painted it on to our biscuits with small, clean paintbrushes. We found that we got the best results by covering our biscuits with a pale colour first, then while it was still runny adding tiny amounts of the darker colours where we wanted then.
It really was a great way to spend an afternoon, and we love our painted biscuits.
We plan to experiment with painting pastry next, to see if we can make colourful pies! For more fun baking inspiration why not make our Homemade Sparkling Sugar Sprinkles, and our Dandelion and Lemon Biscuits.
And for more Easter craft inspiration check out our Sgraffito Decorated Eggs and our cute little easy wet felted Easter Owl.
6 comments
These painted biscuits look so pretty, and I bet their really yummy! Almost too pretty to eat, I said almost
Thanks Linda, they are yummy and were such fun to decorate :)
Those look awesome Sarah, like miniature works of art. They’re almost to gorgeous to eat, almost ;-)
Thanks Michelle, it was a lovely relaxing way to spend an hour and they taste pretty good too :)
O.M.G.! So adorable! My family loves to paint Christmas decorations together, so this recipe will be so awesome to do for Easter. Thanks for the lovely idea!!
Thank you June, it would be a lovely technique to use on Christmas biscuits as well, in fact I think most of our biscuits will be getting the same treatment from now on :)