Do you want to have a fun baking project with the children? Here is a fantastic idea for a project that is fun for all ages...3D biscuit structures. The Great British Bake Off has been inspiring us and biscuit week saw the contestants try to make a biscuit box. Most of the contestants made a box and lovely as they were it was a particular man's bake that caught our attention....a fire engine. My boys love anything with wheels and fire engines are Mr Cheeky's personal favourite so we just had to have a go.
I used a basic biscuit mixture of the following:
Mix 250g softened butter and 140g caster sugar in a large bowl with a wooden spoon, then add 1 egg yolk and 2 tsp vanilla extractand briefly beat to combine. Sift over 300g plain flour and stir until the mixture is well combined – you might need to get your hands in at the end to give everything a really good mix and press the dough together.
Once rolled out we used our precut templates that I had cut out of the remains of a cereal box over breakfast to put over the top of the dough and cut around. The shapes were put on a tray and put in the oven to bake at 160 degrees until a light golden colour then they were allowed to cool on a wire rack.
Once cooled we had fun decorating them with royal icing and using a thick buttercream to glue the sides together and this is what we created:
The fire engines looked great, they boys had such fun and were really proud of their creations and what's brilliant about this project is that it taught them mathematics through measuring and also making templates and not to mention we could eat our creations. Yum Yum!
