Recipe: Spring Inspired Shortbread Biscuits
I love everything about Spring. I love the flowers, I love the greens everywhere, I love pastel colours, I love all the baby animals and I love being able to venture outside for long walks without trudging through the rain. I also love being able to hang my washing up outside rather than having a kitchen full of clothes dryers!
It also gives us more room to bake in our pokey little flat.
The icing on these shortbread biscuits is seriously amazing!
We use lime and lemon juices to give it a wonderfully refreshing flavour, and of course a drop of green food colouring to give it that spring look.
The lime juice was actually left over juice from a lime we had spare after making our super tasty toddler proof smoothies as well as the juice from half a lemon.
Recipe For Spring Inspired Shortbread Biscuits
- 175g plain flour
- A pinch of salt
- 55g caster sugar
- 115g butter
- Preheat oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas Mark 2
- Grease a baking tray or use parchment paper
- Cream together sugar and butter
- Add flour and salt and stir. You will need to get messy and use your hands, perfect for children.
- Roll out the dough onto a floured surface to the desired thickness
- Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes and then place on your baking tray in the middle shelf of the oven
Lukeosaurus And Me
Rachael is a 31 year old mum to 10 year old Luke and 5 year old Oscar. She lives in England and writes about family life, crafts, recipes, parenting wins(and fails), as well as travel, days out, fashion and living the frugal lifestyle.
14 Comments
Sophie P
These look lovely!
We made biscuits this week too!! #littlechefs
Rachael Robinson
They’re so easy and tasty! :] Thanks for reading xx
Morna Piper
These look great and I love the lemon and like icing idea. I feel a bake coming on!
Rachael Robinson
The icing is so good.
Thank you for reading. xx
Tenminutesspare
Sounds delicious! The icing looks fab! We made choc Easter nests this week… It is so much fun baking with little ones (but also messy!) x
Rachael Robinson
I would definitely agree with messy, but good for them so it’s all good.
Just followed you on Twitter, lovely! I read your blog but I didn’t realise I wasn’t following you. 
Thanks for reading xx
Mini Travellers
I got shot done the other day about icing and told it had to be yellow as it was Easter! Love these though, thanks for sharing. #sundaystars
Rachael Robinson
Oh no!! I wanted to make the icing pastel pink at the beginning, but I didn’t have any red food dye left so we had to go with green…green is Spring-y though…makes me think of all the flowers and little lambs! Maybe it’s not Eastery…but still tastes good!! Glad you liked, thank you for reading xx
BakedPotatoMummy
I love shortbread. We made Suzy Pelta’s brown sugar shortbread recently, which was amazing! I love the green icing on these.
Thanks for linking up with #LittleChefs
Rachael Robinson
Oh it’s so good, isn’t it? We make it a lot in our house because it’s so easy and Luke can really get stuck in to helping. I have never made that, but I like the idea of brown sugar. Thanks for reading. xx
www.mummyofboygirltwins.com
Wow you’re both fab at making biscuits! Good job! I love these – might have to try this too. The twins would adore them xx Jess x
Rachael Robinson
Thank you lovely
Shortbread’s dead easy to make with little ones, and you can cut out the shapes and it’s just like play dough. Hope you try it, let me know how it goes. xx
Sara@HandyHerbs
Great idea. I’m a lover of spring too
Fab that there are only 3 ingredients.
Lukeosaurus And Me
Shortbread is awesome to make with kids, it’s has the same consistency as play dough- or similar. It’s great for little ones to explore. And fully edible, no raw eggs! Xx