How to ice summer retro ice lolly biscuits

Summer is hotting up so we're embracing the heat and icing ice lolly biscuits, yes that's right, we've iced- ice lollies! Crazy... These beautiful hand-iced biscuits are perfect for summer picnics, BBQs or as a treat for someone special.
Time to get baking:
First start baking vanilla biscuits using our very easy to make vanilla biscuit dough recipe, which includes a handy guide for rolling and cutting your dough. We use a special cutter for our ice lollies, but you can make one of your own by drawing a template and cutting around the dough, we do this occasionally with our bespoke orders, which can sometimes be very funny shapes!
Preparing the Icing
Once your ice lolly biscuits have come out of the oven and cooled down, now the fun can really begin. You will need to make a batch of line icing to create the detail and flood icing to create the main colours.
Icing Top Tip!
Your line icing will need to be the consistency of toothpaste

Mix a white and golden brown colour for your line icing and red, lime green and white for your flood icing. We use professional paste colours as liquid food colouring tends to alter the texture of the royal icing too much.
How to ice your own FAB ice lolly biscuits

Step 1: Draw the outline on your biscuits. This creates the 'walls' so that your flood icing wont escape. Let this dry for around 10 minutes at room temperature.

Step 2: Flood the section with a sparse covering of the white flood icing.

Step 3: Using a spoon, sprinkle your hundreds and thousands onto the white area, and carefully tap off the excess.

Step 4: Flood the bottom panel with your red flood icing, use the top of the nozzle to guide the icing into the corners.

Step 5: Flood the middle panel with your white flood icing.

Step 6: Draw an outline around the edge of the lolly stick with your golden brown line icing, then using a weaving pattern, fill in the shape.

Step 7: Put the biscuit in oven, set to the lowest temperature it can go (usually around 50°C) on a metal baking tray for 40 minutes. **Don't worry, the biscuits will not bake any further, the low heat dries the icing and create that glossy, professional look!**
How to ice your own Twister ice lolly biscuits

Step 1: Draw the outline on your biscuits. This creates the 'walls' so that your flood icing won't escape. Let this dry for around 10 minutes at room temperature.

Step 2: Flood the ellipse shape with white flood icing.

Step 3: Flood each alternate panel with the white flood icing, and fill the gaps with lime green flood icing.

Step 4: Drop in your hot pink or red flood icing to create the middle of the twister.

Step 5: Draw an outline around the edge of the lolly stick with your golden brown line icing, then using a weaving pattern, fill in the shape.

Step 7: Put the biscuit in the oven, set to the lowest temperature it can go (usually around 50°C), on a metal baking tray for 40 minutes. **Don't worry, the biscuits will not bake any further, the low heat dries the icing and creates that glossy, professional look!**

Don't feel like you need to stick to our designs... you can get creative with different colours, shapes and sizes using our easy techniques to create your own array of retro ice lolly iced biscuits.

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