These Easter Melting Moments are a beautiful addition to your long weekend, offering a burst of colour and a delicate, melt-in-your-mouth texture. These buttery vanilla biscuits, tinted with gorgeous shades, add something special to the classic melting moments recipe. For example, they’re perfect for an Easter morning tea, a family get-together, or simply to enjoy at any time, because they’re made with straightforward ingredients and look stunning. Let’s explore why this recipe will win you over and what you’ll need to get started!
Why You'll Love These Easter Biscuits
These Easter Melting Moments are as enjoyable to bake as they are to eat. Here’s why they’ll become a favourite:
- Melt-in-Your-Mouth Texture: The blend of butter, cornflour, and icing sugar delivers that classic soft, crumbly bite.
- Visually Appealing: Bright colours tie in perfectly with Easter, so they’re perfect for gifts.
- Simple to Prepare: Because they use basic ingredients and easy steps, they’re a breeze to whip up.
- Fun for Kids: Little hands can help mix in the colours, also adding a bit of joy to the process.
Ingredients for Easter Melting Moments
What You Need to Make This Recipe
Here’s what you’ll need to create your Easter Melting Moments, along with their role in the recipe:
- Unsalted Butter: The key ingredient, because it provides a rich flavour and a tender texture.
- Icing Sugar: Brings sweetness and helps achieve that signature melt-in-your-mouth quality, great for a light dusting too!
- Vanilla Extract: Adds a warm, familiar taste to every bite, enhancing the overall flavour.
- Plain Flour: Gives the biscuits their structure without making them heavy.
- Cornflour: The trick to that ultra-soft, crumbly texture melting moments are known for, so it’s essential here.
- Full Cream Milk: A small amount to the icing to ensure it’s smooth and spreadable.
- Salt: Enhances the flavour, also balancing the sweetness and enriching the buttery taste.
- Assorted Gel Food Colours: These deliver vibrant shades with minimal liquid, therefore keeping the dough’s texture just right, gel is ideal since it provides bold colour without watering it down.
These everyday items come together to create a biscuit that’s both simple and special, with a touch of Easter charm.
Easter Melting Moments
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sandwichesThese vanilla biscuits, tinted in bright shades using gel food colours, are perfect for Easter or morning tea. They're simple to make with everyday ingredients and make a great gift.
Ingredients
- For the Biscuits
180g unsalted butter, room temperature
50g icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
225g plain flour
50g cornflour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Assorted gel food colouring
- For the Icing
115g icing sugar
20g unsalted butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 - 3 teaspoons full cream milk
Assorted gel food colouring
Directions
- Make the Biscuits
Using a stand mixer, mix the butter until it starts to look creamy. Add the icing sugar and vanilla extract, beat until pale and creamy, scraping down the bottom and sides to ensure even distribution.
Sift the flour, cornflour and salt together, then add to the butter mix. Beat for about 1 minute to form a soft dough.
Divide the dough into 4 or 5 pieces, then add the gel colour a couple of drops at a time until the desired colour is reached.
Roll each colour into a log shape, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 30 minutes or until firm, but not hard.
While the dough is chilling, preheat your oven to 160ºC and line 2 large trays with baking paper.
Remove one colour at a time from the fridge and cut into an even number of slices. Roll each slice into a ball and place onto the baking tray, and use the back of a fork to create that iconic texture that we all love.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, they will remain pale with a light golden hint around the edges.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the tray for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Make the Icing
Place the icing sugar, melted butter, and vanilla into a mixing bowl.
Use a hand mixer, or whisk, to mix until it begins to turn into buttercream. Add a teaspoon of milk at a time until the mixture is smooth and spreadable.
If you would like multicoloured frosting, divide into 4 and tint as desired.
Sandwich your biscuits together by pairing them off, then placing a teaspoon of icing in between.
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