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Traffic Light Biscuit

Traffic Light Biscuits

Prep

25 mins

Bake

8-10 mins

Serves

14

Difficulty

Easy
Traffic Light Biscuit

About

These colourful biscuits look great and kids will have lots of fun making them!

made using

Pure Cane Caster Sugar

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Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4.

Step 2

Cream the butter, Tate & Lyle Caster Sugar and Lyle’s Golden Syrup together in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Gradually beat in the egg and vanilla essence until well mixed.

Step 3

Sift together the flour and baking powder and stir into the mixture until it resembles breadcrumbs. Then gather the mixture together with your hands to form a dough.

Step 4

Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently until smooth. Wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes until firm.

Step 5

Roll out the chilled dough to 3mm (1/8 ”) thick and cut into rectangles measuring about 3cm x 8.5cm (1¼”x3½ “).

Step 6

Using a very small plain round cutter or the end of a 5cm (½ “) plain round piping nozzle cut out 3 holes to represent the lights in half of the rectangles only.

Step 7

Place the rectangles on 2 baking trays lined with parchment paper. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until just golden. Carefully transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Step 8

Spoon 3 small blobs of the different coloured jams along the centre of the plain biscuits to represent the traffic lights. Dust the biscuits with the holes with a little Tate & Lyle

Step 9

Icing Sugar and then arrange on top of the jam-topped biscuits. Press down gently so that the jam shows through.

TOP TIP

Kids will love getting involved with these brightly coloured biscuits so why not let them complete step 8 and do the decorating!

Ingredients – 7 items

Serving

1

For the biscuits

Butter

Unsalted butter

100 g
Pure Cane Caster Sugar

Tate & Lyle Caster Sugar

75 g
Lyle's-golden-syrup

Lyle’s Golden Syrup

25 g
Eggs

Large eggs

1

Vanilla essence

few drops
Flour

Plain flour

sifted

275 g
Baking-powder

Baking powder

1 tsp

To decorate

Raspberry-jam

Raspberry jam

Pineapple Jam

Lime marmalade

Fairtrade Cane Icing Sugar

Tate & Lyle Fair trade Icing Cane Sugar

to dust

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