We've been baking!

This week we've finished off our dinosaur topic by baking dinosaur biscuits.  We worked in small groups and all helped to add and mix the ingredients, roll out the dough, cut out dinosaur shapes and decorate the biscuits.  Everybody around school said how nice they smelt!  Here is the recipe in case any of you would like to make the biscuits at home.

Dinosaur Biscuits

What you need:

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  100g margarine
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  100g caster sugar
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  200g flour
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  1 egg
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  half teaspoon salt
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  200g icing sugar
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  yellow or green food colouring
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  hot water
• currants or shiny silver balls for eyes

What you need to do:

1. Heat the oven to 180C.
2. Cream margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy.
3. Beat the egg into the creamed mixture.
4. Fold in the flour and salt.
5. On a lightly foured surface, knead the biscuit dough and roll our to approx 5mm to 1cm thick.
6. Cut into dinosaur shapes using biscuit cutters or dinosaur pictures as templates to cut around.
7. Place on a greased baking tray and bake for 15 to 20 mins.
8. Leave to cool on the tray for 5 mins before transferring to a cooling rack.
9. Mix together icing sugar with a few drops of food colouring and a little hot water to a smooth paste.
10. Decorate your biscuits with the icing.
11. Add currants/silver balls for eyes.
12. Enjoy your biscuits together!