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Annabel Karmel's Easter Animal Cookies

• Annabel Karmel

Published: March 8, 2023 at 12:48 PM

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Makes 15

A little work

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 12 mins

These super cute animal cookies will look great on any Easter spread, plus your little ones can get involved in decorating

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Bake these animal cookies as part of an Easter-themed afternoon tea, complete with mini eggs and cups of tea.

Ingredients

• 185g plain flour

• 1 ½tsp ground ginger

• ½tsp bicarbonate of soda

• 50g butter

  at room temperature

• 85g soft light brown sugar

• 1 egg yolk

• 2tbsp golden syrup

For the decoration

• mini Smarties

• sugar flowers

• hundreds and thousands

• sugar strands

• icing pen

• royal icing

  or white and pink icing

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Method

• step 1

  Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Line or grease two large baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.

• step 2

  Sift the flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl. Cut the butter into chunks and add to the bowl. Rub the butter into the flour using your fingers until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.

• step 3

  Stir the sugar into the mixture, then add the egg yolk and golden syrup and mix everything together using a wooden spoon.

• step 4

  Sprinkle a clean work surface with flour and knead the dough until it is smooth. Cut the dough in half.

• step 5

  Sprinkle the work surface with a little more flour and roll out the dough, starting at the centre and rolling evenly outwards. Repeat with the second ball of dough.

• step 6

  Cut into shapes using animal cookie cutters. Re-roll the trimmings and use all the dough.

• step 7

  Place the shapes on the lined or greased baking sheets and bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Allow to cool, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Decorate the biscuits once they are cool.

You can find more than 300 recipe and cooking ideas on Annabel Karmels' Healthy Baby & Toddler Recipes app.

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