These colourful cookies are bound to be a big hit with kids and adults alike
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:25 mins – 30 mins
- Cook:15 mins
- Easy
- Makes 22
- Freezable (Raw dough or un-iced baked biscuits can be frozen)
Ingredients
- 175g softened butter
- 50g golden caster sugar
- 50g icing sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 300g plain flour
- zest and juice 1 orange
- 140g icing sugar, sifted
- sprinkles, to decorate
Method
- STEP 1
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Mix the butter, sugars, egg yolks and vanilla with a wooden spoon until creamy, then mix in the flour in 2 batches. Stir in the orange zest. Roll the dough into about 22 walnut-size balls and sit on baking sheets. Bake for 15 mins until golden, then leave to cool.
- STEP 2
Meanwhile, mix the icing sugar with enough orange juice to make a thick, runny icing. Dip each biscuit half into the icing, then straight into the sprinkles. Dry on a wire rack.
