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Do you like boiled sweets?
Perhaps you're more of a biscuit lover.
If you like them both, you'll love this food Finger Tip. It's for stainglass biscuits, which combine the two!
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They're really easy to make, but you're going to need a few ingredients first:
100g flour
50g caster sugar
a pinch of salt
50g butter
1 egg
selection of boiled sweets
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First, put the flour and caster sugar in a mixing bowl. Add the pinch of salt, and then add the 50g of butter.
The butter needs to be chopped up into pieces before it goes in.
Then work the whole lot together with your finger tips!
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When it looks like crumble, it's time to add an egg yolk.
(To separate the yolk from the clear part of the egg, just drain the egg through your finger tips over a dish. The clear bit should drain through.) |
Add the yolk, and start to mix again.
You want the mixture to hold together. When it does, scoop it into a bowl and put it into the fridge for about half an hour.
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When it comes out of the fridge, roll the dough onto a board like this.
Then cut out the shapes that you want. Pastry cutters work best but you could use a blunt knife instead.
Whatever shape you cut, remember to put a smaller shape in the middle, for the sweet!
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| And when you've made the shapes you want, transfer them onto a baking tray that's covered in baking paper.
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Add the sweets next, by just putting them into the holes in the pastry shapes.
If you've got a big hole to fill, use two sweets. And don't worry about trying different colours together - experiment!
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If you want to hang any of your stainglass biscuits up, it's a good idea to make a small hole with a cocktail stick at this point, before they're baked.
You'll find it much easier to hang them up this way!
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Now you have to bake the stainglass biscuits. They go into the oven on 180 degrees or gas mark 4, for about 15 minutes.
When they've cooked, put them aside and don't touch them for at least an hour - because they'll be very hot!
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But, once they have cooled down, hang them up, and enjoy them for as long as you can.
The chances are if you've got family or friends with a sweet tooth they won't last long!
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