Cookie Cutter Biscuits

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DS got some cookie cutters for Xmas - the sort that you make gingerbread men with... except that he doesn't like gingerbreadmen... SO do you good folks know of other recipes that make a similar sort of biscut - a cut-out-able biscuit that we could make instead... my mind has gone blank!

You could try shortbread, although it might flow a bit whilst cooking.

Do you have any of the Nigella books? There's a recipe for biscuits that need cutters in 'Domestic Goddess', 'Feast' and also the star biscuits in the Christmas book.

I can post one if you don't have any of those books.

Just found these on an old thread and copied them:

From Dom. God. :
Butter cut out biscuits:
175g soft unsalted butter
200g caster sugar.
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
400g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1tsp salt
300g icing sugar, sieved and food colouring

Preheat oven 180 / gas 4

Cream sugar and butter til pale, almost moussy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.In another bowl mix flour, salt and baking powder. Add dry ingredients to butter and eggs, mix gently but surely ! If it's too sticky to roll add more flour sparingly. Halve the dough, form into fat discs, wrap in clingfilm and rest in fridge for 1 hr. Roll to 0.5cm thick. Cut shapes. Bake 8-12 mins. Makes 50-60 (I freeze half for another time - freezes well).

Copied from someone else's post on an old thread

from Nigella bites, rainy day biscuits:
175g soft unsalted butter
200g soft brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
350g plain flour
50g ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

preheat oven to 180 degrees C/gas mark 4

1.cream together butter and sugar.
2.beat in eggs and almond extract

1. combine flour, baking powder salt and ground almonds. add to butter and egg mixture, mnixing gently but thoroughly
2. if misture too sticky to roll out, add more flour (sparingly)
3. halve the dough, cut into fat discs and put in fridge to rest for 1/2 hr

6.roll out the fat discs to a thickness of 1/2 cm

1. cut using biscuit cutters, put on greased tray
2. bake for 8-12 mins until lightly golden 'round the edges but still quite pale
3. cool on a rack

I only have Nigella Bites... any good?

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Thanks - will look out the Rainy Day ones tonight :-)