Mary Berry's Easter Biscuits

I realise it’s after Easter now, but these biscuits are pretty darn tasty so if I were you I’d make them now anyway. I did actually make them before Easter, after seeing The Great British Bake Off Easter special with Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. I love it when they give us GBBO junkies a quick fix every now and again. If you happen to be like my mother and own napkins suitable for every occasion then bung these bad boys in a basket lined with Easter napkins- then you can pretend like they’re for a particular reason and not just because you want some biscuits.

Ingredients

200g butter

150g caster sugar

2 large egg yolks

400g plain flour, plus extra for dusting

1tsp mixed spice

1tsp ground cinnamon

2-4tbsp milk

200g currants

Caster sugar, for sprinkling

Preheat the oven to 180⁰C and line a couple baking trays with parchment.

I made this mixture in my mum’s KitchenAid because I saw Mary Berry did on the programme, but I don’t think it’s necessary, as it’s a really easy dough to make. First cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl.

Add the egg yolks and beat into the mixture. (If you don’t know what to do with the leftover egg whites you can free them in ice-cube trays to use later.)

Sift in the flour and spices and 2 tbsps of milk and mix to form a dough. Add the rest of the milk if you need to. You might need your hands at the end to really bring everything together.

Lightly flour a work surface. Tip out the mixture and add the currants by kneading them into the dough.

Roll the dough out to a thickness of about 5mm and then use whatever shape cutters you like to make the biscuits.

Place them onto the trays and sprinkle the tops with some caster sugar before baking for 15 minutes or until pale-golden brown. A good tip I read was that you needn’t be scared of opening to oven to check on them like you would with a cake because they’re not meant to rise.

Cool on a wire rack, sprinkling with some more sugar as they come out of the oven.

My mum and I ended up taking these to her friend’s house where we spent a morning dyeing wool…(don’t ask.)