Cinnamon Bics

Pics courtesy of  my lovely friend again 

Behold my second ever attempt at making biscuits ppl, yes really second, this is because my first attempt was not a good experience + they were the size of hockey pucks. Which was totally not what I was going for believe it or not, so I have been reluctant to revisit biscuits....but revisit I did and I give you my cinnamon stars.

 I had planned on making Lorraine Pascal's ginger/cinammon ones from her xmas ep but I didn't have a lot of the ingredients so I made some/lots of changes and hoped they wouldn't betray like the hockey pucks did!

errr....I thought we weren't getting dressed up?! 

Recipe 

150g brown sugar

150g butter

2 heaped tbsp of cinnomon (the hockey pucks didnt taste like cinommon last time so i upped it)

2 tbsp of honey

250g of self raising flour

1 egg

I followed Lorraine's method of melting   sugar,butter, cinnamon and honey in a pot which smelled gorgeous.

Let that cool, then pour that on top of sieved flour and mix. Don't forget to add the egg to help bind everything which I nearly did!

When it all comes together roll in to a ball and begin rolling out with rolling pin and cut out shapes. I rolled them really thin because I was keen to avoid a repeat of the before mentioned failure biscuits.                  They shall forever haunt me..(.shudder)

Place 6 on baking tray lined with baking paper put in to a preheated oven 180c/GM 4 bake 4 about 10/15min.

I like these bics (not just because these actually worked) as they tasted of cinnamon and they were a bit crunchy. However they weren't sweet enough for me so to satisfy my sweet tooth I drizzled some icing over them which worked nicely I must say.     

I have something I would change if I baked them again, but biscuits take 2 a relative success yeah!

Freehand icing ......fun.

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