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Hot Milk Cake Recipe

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TOTAL TIME: Prep: 20 min. Bake: 30 min. + cooling

MAKES: 12-16 servings

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1-1/4 cups 2% milk
• 10 tablespoons butter, cubed

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Nutritional Facts

1 serving (1 piece) equals 254 calories, 9 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 75 mg cholesterol, 154 mg sodium, 39 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 4 g protein.

Directions

1. In a large bowl, beat eggs on high speed for 5 minutes or until thick and lemon-colored. Gradually add sugar, beating until mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder; gradually add to batter; beat at low speed until smooth.
2. In a small saucepan, heat milk and butter just until butter is melted. Gradually add to batter; beat just until combined.
3. Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Yield: 12-16 servings.

Originally published as Hot Milk

As for the chocolate, use the good stuff for this project! Skip the chips and reach for chocolate in bar form. High-quality dark chocolate bars are typically found in the candy aisle, not the baking aisle. Candy melts also wouldn’t work. The chocolate needs to be very, very thin in order to let the detail of cookies show through.

GILDED COOKIE WREATH CAKE
a tutorial by Erin Gardner

Supplies:
Animal crackers
Leaf cookies
Dark chocolate
Yellow or gold sixlets
Edible gold luster dust
Liquor or clear extract
Paint brushes
Heatproof bowl
Fork for dipping
Parchment paper

Break the dark chocolate up into a small heatproof bowl. Melt over a double boiler or in the microwave. If using a microwave, heat the chocolate at short intervals, 20-30 seconds at a time, stirring chocolate between heatings.

Place a cookie onto a fork and lower it into the dark chocolate. Submerge the cookie so that it’s completely covered. Lift the cookie up out of the chocolate and tap the fork against the side of the bowl to shake off excess chocolate.

Using a clean finger, or a paint brush, wipe the surface of the cookie so that the details are exposed. Slide the cookie onto a piece of parchment paper to dry. Repeat with the rest of your cookies.

Combine gold luster dust with a few drops of liquor or clear extract to make a gold paint. Vodka is typically the luster paint mixer of choice, but other liquors work just as well. I tried rum on my cookies and loved it! It worked beautifully to create the paint and added a little extra festive flavor. Paint the detailed sides of your cookies with the gold luster paint. Set the cookies aside to dry. Repeat with another layer if you want your cookies to be solid gold.

Dip a dry paint brush into the gold luster and dust the detailed surface of the cookie. This will help make the color more uniform while giving the cookie a brighter, polished sheen.

Paint and dust the yellow sixlets the same way you did the cookies.  Arrange the gilded cookies and candy on top of a freshly iced cake.

These jazzed up store-bought beauties would also work beautifully as cupcake toppers or even on their own arranged on a platter.

How to Ice The Snowman Christmas biscuits.

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How to Ice The Snowman Christmas biscuits.

We have lovingly recreated the iconic characters from Raymond Briggs books The Snowman. Filled with festive fun, the Christmas biscuits come packed in a beautifully illustrated gift tin and can be delivered all over the world.

We’ve shared our secret biscuit recipe so you can try your hand at icing The Snowman at home. The perfect activity for a cold winter’s afternoon that can be enjoyed by the whole family.

Top tip! Watch our YouTube icing tutorial before you get started

Let’s get baking…
First start by baking the vanilla biscuits, they are super easy to make and you can find the vanilla dough recipehere which includes a handy guide for rolling and cutting your dough. We use special handmade cutters but you can easily make your own by creating a paper template and cutting around the dough.
Once your vanilla biscuits are out of the oven and have cooled down, the fun really begins and you can start to get creative!

Making the icing…

Firstly you will need to make two batches of icing, line icing to create the outline for your biscuits and flood icing so you can easily fill the biscuit in.

 

Mix white, black, orange and green for your line icing and white and green for your flood icing. We use professional paste colours when mixing both their flood and line icing as liquid food colouring tends to alter the texture of the royal icing and the results won’t be as good.

Step 1: Carefully ice the outline on your biscuits using a piping bag. This will create ‘walls’ for your biscuits that will stop your runnier flood icing from escaping. Let this icing dry for around 10 minutes at room temperature before continuing.

Step 2: Flood the body of The Snowman with your white flood icing, then his hat with your green flood icing. Use the nozzle of the squeezy icing bottle to gently nudge the flood icing into corners. Just be careful not to over fill the biscuit with the flood icing, or damage any of the line icing. If there are any air bubbles you can pop these using a cocktail stick.

Step 3: Set your oven to its lowest temperature (usually around 50°C). Carefully lay the biscuits onto a baking tray and pop them back into your oven for 40 minutes. Not to worry, your biscuits will not burn, the low heat of the oven just dries the icing and creates that professional, glossy look that you are after!

Step 4: When you take your biscuits out of the oven you will need to let them cool for around half an hour before you can start adding the detail.

Step 5: Give your snowman some buttons by using the black line icing, and then ice him some eyes and a mouth. You then need to use the green line icing to give him a scarf and the orange for his nose.

Step 6: Now let your biscuits dry for around 15 minutes at room temperature. You can then pack them up in cellophane bags and give them as gifts, or use them to decorate your Christmas table.

You can buy The Snowman collection online along with lots of other beautiful Christmas designs.

Creative Christmas Window Displays

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Creative Christmas Window Displays

December is here and we are all very excited at Biscuiteers! The lights are twinkling, shoppers are filling the streets, and there isn’t long left until the big day. One of our favourite things about Christmas is seeing all of the beautiful and creative window displays in London, and we have spotted some amazing ones this year!

We love to get inventive with our own Christmas window displays and the two Biscuiteers icing cafés are looking particularly magical at the moment. In Notting Hill you’ll find a biscuit performance of The Nutcracker, inspired by our beautiful Nutcracker collection. We’ve added not one, but two Christmas trees for good measure. The display was baked by hand in the boutique and lovingly hand-iced too, right down to the last detail. It took 4 days, at least 40 biscuits and a lot of icing to complete!

In our Northcote Road icing café we’ve recreated a scene from The Snowman™ and The Snowdog film, using ourlimited edition collection as inspiration. This Christmassy window features colourful tents, sparkling snow, and even The Snowman himself flying overhead!

We hope you love both of our Christmas window displays as much as we do. If you do then let us know by sharing your photos on Twitter and Instagram, and tagging @BiscuiteersLtd!

A few of our favourite Christmas window displays beyond Biscuiteers include Harrods, Fortnum & Mason and Selfridges. Based around the theme of ‘Once upon a Christmas,’ the iconic windows at Harrods include a collection of stages with different performances taking place. Miniature displays just below feature the return of last year’s character Peter Pumpernickel. You’ll spot him dancing, pulling crackers and getting very much into the festive spirit with his companion, Poppy Peashoot.

The Fortnum & Mason windows are wonderfully traditional. There are 21 in total and each one has been designed by illustrator Kristjana S. Williams. The enchanting arrangements are brought to life with intricately decorated animals, seasonal food and musical instruments.

The Selfridges Christmas windows are inspired by the Star of Bethlehem, with a different display for each sign of the zodiac. We’ve heard that an incredible 2 tonnes of glitter has been used to create the displays and 32,000 hours of work have been put into them!

If you love Christmas windows as much as we do then you may enjoy reading about our own creations for Selfridges,an edible London cityscape made entirely from gingerbread and a biscuit-y recreation of the department store itself! If you’re planning a Christmas shopping trip then don’t forget that you can buy your Biscuiteers biscuits in Harrods,Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason too.

Images by Biscuiteers and via here, here and here.