I have a great recipe for Bonfire Night biscuits

[JenumGeranium]

Just got a mag through the door - Action in Childcare & Early years - in it there is a great recipe to make Bonfire Night 'Catherine Wheel' biscuits!

Anyone interested (before I type it up!)

yes please!

ok bear with me!

yes please - yum yum!!

Ingredients

150g plain flour
pinch of salt
75g caster sugar
100g soft butter
2 different food colourings of your choice

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/ gas mark 4.
2. Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and add the butter.
3. Using your fingers, pinch together the flour and butter to form crumbs and then knead into a dough.
4. Divide the dough into two and knead a few drops of food colouring into each half.
5. Shape each piece into a sausage shape and roll out into a long, flat rectangle.
6. Place one coloured rectangle on top of the other and gently roll up like a swiss roll.
7. Using a sharp knife, cut off slices about 1cm thick and you should have a colourful Catherine-wheel-like spiral.
8. Lay the biscuits out on a greased baking tray and cook for 15 minutes.
9. Allow the biscuits to cool, preferably on a wire rack, before enjoying.

cool - like the twirly-wirly idea,
thanks for typing it up

Yeah I thought it was good - great for the kids to help with!

Hey thanks for that, I'll make sure I've got all the stuff and they can have a go when they back from school.
Thanks again!

Hey thanks for that, I'll make sure I've got all the stuff and they can have a go when they back from school.
Thanks again!

Hey thanks for that, I'll make sure I've got all the stuff and they can have a go when they back from school.
Thanks again!

whoops computer went mad - sorry!

lol!

No problem - just doing my good deed for the day!

bump - for anyone else interested who may have missed it!

Does the mag show a picture? what colour food colouring did they use? red and yellow?

No picture unfortunately! Just says to use 2 different colours!

What would anyone here use then? I am hopeless when there is any call on my creativity!

erm... I'm not too good at stuff like that either!

Red and yellow? Red and green? Yellow and green? Green and blue? Red and blue?

Sorry - no help at all am I?!

NO!!!!

Let me know what you used when you make them (as I presume you are going to).

OK I will!

Or maybe I wont make them as it may be a bit too confusing deciding which colours to use!

I know, I will ask the children what colours they would like to use - there! Job done!

I'm going ot have a go with DD after school. don't like using food colouring so I'm going to do one plain, and put cocoa power in the other half.

Just to confuse matters further....

Oohhh that sounds yummy!

Now then - colourings or cocoa powder?

Arrggghhhhhh?

I only have pink and yellow so that would be it

I think pink and yellow would be fine! Can you get pink food colouring? Dont think I have ever seen it.

But then I do live a sheltered life!

mine are little pots of powder from a cake deco shop

Ahhh I see! That explains it then. Mine are from Sainsburys!

So did anyone get round to making these yet?

I just wondered what they turned out like!