Description
Why only decorate eggs when you can learn how to bake and decorate these colourful Easter chick biscuits?
About this Event
Put both your baking skills and your decorating skills to the test during this kids’ cook along. In this friendly, fun and interactive class, one of the chefs from Waitrose Cookery School will take you step by step through baking the perfect, light biscuit. Then you can let your creativity flow with some artistic icing. The chef will give you some tips and tricks, but after that it’s over to you!
Parental supervision may be required for:
- Mixing and rolling biscuit dough
- Making coloured icing
- Using scissors to cut piping bags
- Using the oven
What you'll learn
- How to mix up a delicious biscuit dough
- How to get the perfect golden biscuits
- Icing and piping skills
Makes: 24 biscuits
Duration: This class will last approximately 1 hour
Prepare ahead: Please make sure your butter is soft. Please have all your other ingredients weighed out and ready along with the equipment you’ll need.
Shopping List (makes 24 biscuits):
Dairy:
- 150g unsalted butter, softened
- 1 medium egg
Store Cupboard:
- 300g plain flour
- 100g dark brown muscovado sugar
- 1 tsp Barts mixed spice
- 1 tsp Barts ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 300g icing sugar
- Yellow, orange and black food gel colourings
Equipment:
- 2 large baking trays
- Baking parchment
- Scissors
- Wooden spoon or spatula
- Rolling pin
- 2 large mixing bowl
- 4 small bowls
- Clingfilm
- Small bowl of dusting flour
- 6cm round cutter or a cup to cut the biscuits with
- Cooling rack
- Sieve
- Small jug of cold water
- Spoons for mixing and tasting
- Fork
- 3 piping bags or plastic sandwich bags
- Cutlery knife or palette knife
About your instructor: You’ll be led through this class with one of our experienced chefs from the Waitrose Cookery School.
Joining a virtual experience: Our Virtual Experiences will take place via Zoom. We’d recommend using a laptop or desktop if possible to make it easier for you to take part. Two days before your Virtual Experience, we’ll send you full details on how to join.
Who
All Ages
