Ready, set, bake! It's National Biscuit Day

It's National Biscuit Day! A great cause for celebration at Biscuiteers HQ. We have been mastering the art of biscuit icing and gifting for a decade, and love nothing more than creating collections of stylish iced biscuits for our customers important celebrations and milestones.

At Biscuiteers, we believe that hand iced biscuits make the perfect gift because they are a completely unique and thoughtful way to celebrate a special occasion. They are not only witty, but their incredible flexibility means that you can create a biscuit collection for every occasion and post them to your friends and family, all over the world.

In celebration of National Biscuit Day, we're sharing the icing secrets behind our best selling Tea for Two collection, so you can create you own masterpieces at home.

Ready. Set. Bake!
What you will need:
A batch of teapot & teacup shaped biscuits - recipe here
A batch of royal and line icing - recipe here
Edible gold shimmer paint

Icing colours:
Line: light pink, light green, white, blue
Flood: light pink, light green, white, blue

Pink tea cups
Pipe the outline of your tea cup with the light pink line icing. Pipe the base of the tea cup and body and then a curved dip at the top. At this stage, you can pipe a "scalloped" line across the centre of your teacup if you wish to have two flood colours. Let the line icing dry for around 10 minutes.
Flood the body of the tea cup with white and light pink flood icing.

Place your iced biscuits onto a baking tray and then into an oven that has been set to the lowest temperature until the icing has set hard.

Once the icing on your biscuits is dry, take the light pink line icing and pipe the handle of your teacup and a line across the top edge of your biscuit to create the lip of the teacup.

At this stage you can add any extra piped details you wish. We've piped three dots below the point of the scallop. Using your light green line icing pipe 7 dots in the white section of your biscuit. Let the line icing dry for around 10 minutes.
Then using a thin brush paint a gold vine design across the biscuit as well as painting over the white dots. Allow to dry fully.

Light green tea cups
Pipe the outline of your tea cup with the white line icing. Pipe the base of the tea cup and body, then a curved dip at the top. Also pipe a line across the centre of your teacup. Let the line icing dry for around 10 minutes.
Flood the body of the tea cup with white and light green flood icing.

Place your iced biscuits onto a baking tray and then into an oven that has been set to the lowest temperature until the icing has set hard.

Once the icing on your biscuits is dry, take white line icing and pipe the handle of your teacup and a line across the top edge of your biscuit to create the lip of the teacup.

At this stage you can add any extra piped details you wish – such as a line across the centre of the cup to add definition, if like us if you've chosen to use two flood colours. We've added swirls and dots to our tea cup. Let the line icing dry for around 10 minutes.

Dip a clean paintbrush into the edible gold paint and carefully replicate a similar design to the bottom of your biscuit on the top half, use the images above as a guide. Then add gold details around the lip of the cup, the handle and paint a line across the middle.
Blue tea pot
Pipe the outline of your teapot with blue line icing. Ice the base of the teapot and round body, being sure to outline the spout and lid. As well as piping three ovals across the body of the teapot in white line icing.

Flood the body of the teapot with blue flood icing and the ovals with white flood icing.

Place your iced biscuits onto a baking tray and then into an oven that has been set to the lowest temperature until the icing has set hard.
Once the icing on your biscuits is dry, take the blue line icing and pipe the handle of your teapot and a line across the top to create the lid of the teapot.

At this stage it's time to add the pretty details. Pipe little white scalloped edges around the ovals. With pink line icing pipe roses in the centre of the three white ovals, use the images above as guide. Finally pipe light green dots around the roses with your line icing. Then let the line icing dry for around 10 minutes.

Dip your clean paintbrush into gold edible metallic food paint and carefully paint over any line detail added - the handle, the rim of lid and the dividing line. Allow to dry fully.
And there you have it, the most perfect biscuits for afternoon tea and of course, National Biscuit Day!