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Easter biscuits
Mini eggs make these cookies look extra special
Makes 20
Ready in 1 hour, 20 minutes
Ingredients
  • 150g butter, softened
  • 100g caster sugar
  • finely grated zest of
  • 1 unwaxed lemon
  • 2 large free-range egg yolks
  • 225g plain flour, plus
  • extra for rolling out
  • 50g currants
  • 200g royal icing sugar
  • 40 sugar-coated mini eggs
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Method
1 Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper. Put the butter, caster sugar and lemon zest in a large bowl and mix with a wooden spoon.

2 Stir in the yolks, sift in the flour and add the currants. Mix until clumps form, then make into a large lump with your hands. Lightly flour a rolling pin and work surface. Roll dough to the thickness of a £1 coin. Cut into biscuits and put on baking tray.

3 Ask an adult to put the biscuits into the oven for 12 minutes. Take out and leave to cool..

4 Mix the icing sugar with 2 tablespoons water. Spoon on to biscuits and decorate with eggs.


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