Nigellas butter cutout biscuits recipe please,or your own version.

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I would like to make some biscuits that I can cut out and ice , for my dd1s party on Sat and I cant find this recipe. I think its in the Domestic Goddess book. Would be very grateful thank you.

Hi just going to get it for you, hope it's not too late! just made these last week for my ds's 4th birthday party

175g soft unsalted butter
200g caster sugar
2 lrg eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
400g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
300g icing sugar, sieved, and food colouring

preheat oven to gas 4/180
cream butter and sugar til pale, beat in eggs and vanilla
In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the butter and eggs, and mix gently but surely. If you think the finished mixture is too sticky to be rolled out, add more flour, but do so sparingly as too much will make the dough tough.
Halver the dough, form into fat discs, wrap each half in clingfilm and rest in the fridge for a t least 1 hour. Sprinkle a suitable surface with flour, place a disc of dough on it (not taking the other half out til you've finished with the first) and sprinklye a little more flour on top of that. then roll it out to a thickness of about half a cm. Cut into shapes, dipping the cutter into flour as you go, and place the biscuits a little apart on greased or lined baking sheets.
Bake for 8 - 12 minutes until golden brown around edges. cool on a rack and continue with rest of dough. when all cooked, do the icing. Put a couple of tablespoons of just-not-boiling water intoa large bowl, add the sieved icing sugar and mix together, adding more water as you need to form a thick paste. Colour as desired and ice biscuits.
makes 50 - 60.

Ah bless you, thank you so much x