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75g soft butter
75g caster sugar
½ free-range organic egg (M)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
125g Zeeland flour + extra to sprinkle
½ teaspoon baking powder
icing sugar, for sprinkling
white and yellow fondant icing
We bake large white daisies for Whitsun, using our usual recipe for vanilla cookies with fondant icing. We have baked this recipe hundreds of times, but all the little monsters like these bicuits the most. They eat bicuits with royal icing or chocolate, but these fondantcookies really make them happy.
But today we are doing something different than usual. With one dough we make two types of Daisies, large and small ones. Divide the dough in half and put 1 half in the refrigerator until tomorrow.
How to make daisies
Beat butter and sugar creamy.
Beat the egg and weigh to get half of it.
Beat half the egg into the butter mixture.
Also beat the vanilla extract into the mixture.
Meanwhile stir flour and baking powder together.
Sift the flour mixture into the butter mixture.
Fold it in until the mixture start to looks like dough.
Knead it briefly by hand.
Form into a flat ball and wrap the dough well.
Place the dough for 30 minutes in the fridge.
Preheat the oven to 175°C
Because you only have to cut out 6 biscuits, quickly roll out the dough and cut out the daisies, then the dough is still cold and you can start baking immediatly
Roll out the dough to 1cm thickness.
Cut out 6 large daisies.
Place them on the baking tray.
Bake them for 10-12 minutes.
Let the biscuits cool on the baking tray.
Meanwhile knead the icing until soft.
Roll the fondant icing thinly.
Cut the flowers out of the fondant icing.
Stick them on the biscuits with a drop of water.
Cut out yellow circles and stick them on the flowers.
Finally press stripes on the flower petals, using a skewer.
The daisies look pretty and tomorrow is Whitsun, in the morning you bake the mini-daisies, those are quickly ready!