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  • Biscuit Cake / Cake Biscuit Icing Workshop

    We recently ran a Valentine’s biscuit decorating workshop. You may have seen these amazing biscuits cakes – they are large biscuits cut to shape, and then iced with fluffy buttercream before being decorated with a host of sweet treats.

    Our biscuit decorating workshop was themed for Valentine’s Day. We brought along our hand baked vanilla sugar cookies in a range of shapes and sizes, supplied, piping bags, fondant icing, holds, cutters, food colouring and got everyone decorating.

    We started with everyone hand icing the smaller biscuits to go on top of the larger biscuit bake and introduced a few techniques and skills to the group. Once they had had time to decorate their ‘topping’ biscuits, we brought out the large biscuits for decorating. Again, after a brief tutorial, everyone was able to pipe their own larger biscuits with our fluffy buttercream before assembling the final creations. They decorated their biscuit cakes with the biscuits they had iced, and a selection of other treats we supplied including themed sweets and sprinkles.

    The results were fantastic with everyone taking home their own beautiful, delicious and personal biscuit cake. Even better though was the feedback we got from the class.

    “I can’t believe I made all this myself. I love it!”

    “That’s 2 hours of the most brilliant R&R. I really needed that – thank you!”

    “It’s so nice to do something creative and make something with my hands”

    “Can we stay here and do this all day?”

    Our biscuits decorating workshops and icing workshops are an excellent few hours of doing something creative, relaxing and fun. We can tailor any workshop for you, and we cna bring everything with us (and leave only smiles and beautiful biscuits).

    Contact us to find out more.

  • Happy, Easy Pink Biscuit Treats for Valentine’s Day

    Although making biscuits is what we do every day, we still love spending a bit of family time making them too. It can be as complicated or simple as you can face, and this weekend we decided to try ‘simple, yet impressive” for our family Valentine’s baking extravaganza!

    So these are very straight-forward, require no cooking (but there is chocolate melting so you will need to supervise this part) and you can be as creative as you like.

    Ingredients for our pink biscuit treats…

    We bought:-

    • pink wafer biscuits
    • white chocolate
    • red candy melts (you can buy these from lots of places including Hobbycraft, Lakeland, cake decorating shops and online)
    • sprinkles and sugar decorations (we used some supermarket sprinkles and dried raspberry pieces from Waitrose, but if you are going full Valentines, you could order heart sprinkles like these from the amazing Shire Bakery

    and you will need:-

    • greaseproof paper
    • a small saucepan
    • a glass bowl(s)
    • a sharp knife

    1) Melt your white chocolate. The trick is to melt it slowly in a glass/heatproof bowl over some gently simmering water. (For the cookery buff’s, this is called a Bain Marie). Make sure that your water is simmering gently, that the bottom of the bowl is not touching the water and that no water gets into the bowl with the chocolate. You need the steam to gently melt the chocolate until it is lovely, smooth and all melted.

    2) Take your bowl off the heat and put it onto a folded tea towel to give it some stability. Place your greaseproof paper onto a chopping board, or plate so you have somewhere to place your wafers once they are dipped, and then melt a handful of candy melts (either using the same Bain Marie method and a clean bowl, or very gently in the microwave – there are instructions on the packet.)

    3) Take one wafer at a time and dip half of it into the melted white chocolate. You might need to use a teaspoon to help the chocolate cover some of the sides of the wafer. Once you are happy with the coating of chocolate, place the wafer onto the greaseproof paper.

    4) Use a teaspoon to drizzle the melted candy melts over the white chocolate-coated parts off the wafer biscuits. If you hold the teaspoon above the dipped wafers and gently shake it back and forth, you should get a bit of drizzle across each one. Remember, this is about having fun, not creating a perfect drizzle!

    5) Sprinkle your chosen toppings – dried raspberry, hundreds and thousands or heart sprinkles…..and again, perfection is not required here, but fun is!

    6) Leave somewhere cool to harden/set, and then store in an airtight jar, or package into cellophane bags with pretty ribbons ready to present to your Valentine!

    7) Enjoy and please tag us @enchantingbakes to show us how you got on!

    Happy Valentine’s Day,

    love

    Griselda x