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We have lovingly recreated the iconic characters from Raymond Briggs books The Snowman. Filled with festive fun, the Christmas biscuits come packed in a beautifully illustrated gift tin and can be delivered all over the world. We've shared our secret biscuit recipe so you can try your hand at icing The Snowman at home. The perfect activity for a cold winter’s afternoon that can be enjoyed by the whole family. Let's get baking... First start by baking the vanilla biscuits, they are super easy to make and you can find the vanilla dough recipe here which includes a handy guide for rolling and cutting your dough. We use special handmade cutters but you can easily make your own by creating a paper template and cutting around the dough. Once your vanilla biscuits are out of the oven and have cooled down, the fun really begins and you can start to get creative! Making the icing... Firstly you will need to make two batches of icing, line icing to create the outline for your biscuits and flood icing so you can easily fill the biscuit in. ![]()
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Mix white, black, orange and green for your line icing and white and green for your flood icing. We use professional paste colours when mixing both their flood and line icing as liquid food colouring tends to alter the texture of the royal icing and the results won’t be as good.
Step 1: Carefully ice the outline on your biscuits using a piping bag. This will create ‘walls’ for your biscuits that will stop your runnier flood icing from escaping. Let this icing dry for around 10 minutes at room temperature before continuing.
Step 2: Flood the body of The Snowman with your white flood icing, then his hat with your green flood icing. Use the nozzle of the squeezy icing bottle to gently nudge the flood icing into corners. Just be careful not to over fill the biscuit with the flood icing, or damage any of the line icing. If there are any air bubbles you can pop these using a cocktail stick. ![]()
Step 3: Set your oven to its lowest temperature (usually around 50°C). Carefully lay the biscuits onto a baking tray and pop them back into your oven for 40 minutes. Not to worry, your biscuits will not burn, the low heat of the oven just dries the icing and creates that professional, glossy look that you are after!
Step 4: When you take your biscuits out of the oven you will need to let them cool for around half an hour before you can start adding the detail.
Step 5: Give your snowman some buttons by using the black line icing, and then ice him some eyes and a mouth. You then need to use the green line icing to give him a scarf and the orange for his nose. ![]()
Step 6: Now let your biscuits dry for around 15 minutes at room temperature. You can then pack them up in cellophane bags and give them as gifts, or use them to decorate your Christmas table.
You can buy The Snowman collection online along with lots of other beautiful Christmas designs.
How to Ice The Snowman Christmas biscuits
24 November 2015
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5 mins
Top tip:
Watch our YouTube icing tutorial before you get started
Step 1: Carefully ice the outline on your biscuits using a piping bag. This will create ‘walls’ for your biscuits that will stop your runnier flood icing from escaping. Let this icing dry for around 10 minutes at room temperature before continuing.
Step 2: Flood the body of The Snowman with your white flood icing, then his hat with your green flood icing. Use the nozzle of the squeezy icing bottle to gently nudge the flood icing into corners. Just be careful not to over fill the biscuit with the flood icing, or damage any of the line icing. If there are any air bubbles you can pop these using a cocktail stick.
Step 4: When you take your biscuits out of the oven you will need to let them cool for around half an hour before you can start adding the detail.
Step 5: Give your snowman some buttons by using the black line icing, and then ice him some eyes and a mouth. You then need to use the green line icing to give him a scarf and the orange for his nose.
You can buy The Snowman collection online along with lots of other beautiful Christmas designs.
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