With Easter around the corner, why not make some fried egg biscuits as a fun Easter treat. I originally bought the yellow candy melt "yolks" to use to make some chicken cake pops. However, a trial run made me realise that whilst bunny butt cake pops are easy, chickens are a bit more tricky. I therefore thought I would make some fried eggs instead and try out using royal icing for the first time.
I used a standard shortbread type biscuit recipe and used a flower cutter to cut out the shapes. The hardest part was keeping the dough cold or it gets a bit sticky. Once baked and cooled I used royal icing to decorate. It was the first time I had used royal icing, but I am now keen to try something harder. I used the icing out of the container in a piping bag to make the egg shape. Then to fill I mixed some royal icing with water to thin it and filled in the outline.
Fried Egg Biscuits
- 200g butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 400g plain flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tub of royal icing (I used renshaw)
- 1 packet of yellow candy melts
- Cream the butter and sugar togther
- Using a mixer add the flour and egg and mix until a dough is formed.
- Chill for 10 minutes in the fridge
- Roll out the dough and cut out flower shapes and lay onto baking parchment.
- Put back in the fridge for 10 minutes
- Bake in a pre heated oven (180C) for around 12 minutes
- Once cool pipe royal icing roughly around the edge of the biscuit. Use the edge as a guide, but you don't want to be precise as it will look too precise for an egg.
- Mix a little water with some royal icing to make it thinner and use this to fill in the outlines.
- Add a candy melt to the top of each egg, slightly to one side.
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Og these are such fun. I love them
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