Spiced Easter Biscuits
Orange zest and cranberries make these Spiced Easter Biscuits the perfect dessert for your next Easter holiday celebration.
Question – what would Bintu’s alternative take on the traditional spiced Easter biscuits involve?
Answers anyone?
Would it involve orange zest – like in these orange spiced almond muffins.
Would it have a little bit of red in it – she is obsessed with all things red after all.
Cardamom? Coconut? Rice? – bet if she can work these in she will.
Of course I am working on cardamom and coconut versions of these. But for this Easter, it is all about orange zest and cranberries. Because I am a fan of speckly biscuits, I add the cranberries into the food processor so that they got chopped to ity bity bits. Just the way I like them. If you prefer them whole, then take the biscuit dough out of the food processor just before adding them in.
Both mini chefs love help making these – though I am not sure if it to do with pressing start and stop on the food processor (eldest), and rolling the dough (both). But they are happy and I am happy and we got Easter covered.
So we will be celebrate Easter 2014 with these orange spiced cranberry Easter biscuits. How about you?
Cardamom cranberry pistachio sables.
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Spiced Easter Biscuits
Ingredients
- 220 g plain flour
- 110 g butter
- 100 g caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp all spice
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp orange zest
- 45 g cranberries
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven to fan 140C / 160C / 320F / gas 3 and line a baking tray.
- Add the flour and butter to a food processor and process until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Then add in the sugar, baking powder, spices, orange zest and cranberries and process till mixed.
- Add in the egg and pulse for a few seconds until the mixture forms into a dough.
- Roll the dough to a thickness of about 1 cm and then cut into your desired cookie shapes.
- Bake for about 15-18 mins until biscuits are golden.
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Lovely recipe Bintu, great idea to blitz the cranberries to make red speckles. I’m going to make some sort of Easter biccies with my two, but not sure of what flavouring yet!
I would love to see your version Lou.
Hello Bintu,
I remember these kinds of biscuits from when I was younger … were they called Shrewsbury biscuits? Anyway, I remember that I loved them and actually recently had something similar when I was in Australia made by a Dutch lady … they had lots of vanilla in and were absolutely deliicious!
I love that you’ve added orange and cranberries, orange and cinnamon … perfect for Easter!
I am going to have to go investigate Shrewsbury biscuits Helen.
I love the combination of orange and cranberries, as well as the cinnamon and all spice in these biscuits. I would happily enjoy these anytime.
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These sounf really nice,tempted to have a go!
That is the aim Susan.
Sounds fab! I’m craving something with my cup of coffee! 😉
Make them, bake a few and freeze the rest Sylvia.
These sound fabulous, Bintu! I love orange and cranberry together. What a great combination. Yum!
It is becoming my thing Tammy, I now have 2 pots of these in the freezer.
Love the sound of the cardamom biscuits but these are pretty good too 😉
Another cardamom lover then Janice?
They look wonderful Bintu!
Thanks Karen.
These look lovely! I might have a go at making some biscuits – as someone else has said – much healthier!
Would love to see your version Fiona.
Funny, my money would have been on cardamom 🙂
Janie x
I would have bet on cardamom too.
Looks yummy. I am gonna try them, Home made biscuits would be much healthier 🙂
I agree Laks, and you could reduce or add anything you want.
I like the sound of these Bintu. What actually is caster Sugar and is it different from regular table sugar?
This is the best part of home cooking – customisation! These sound lovely.
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Lovely cookies B. I love speckly cookies too so these would be perfect, I might even throw in some nuts 🙂
I am thinking macadamia nuts…..
Love your idea of breaking the cranberries up in these biscuits. I hardly ever use the food processor though as it is SUCH a pain to wash up. So tend to do a lot by hand.
Because I really, really like speckly biscuits I just have to do them in the food processor.
They look nicely evenly baked and very more-ish! A little spice without being full blown gingerbread really perks up a biccy.
I really like them Sarah – I will be using these as a base for other flavours.
These biscuits look tasty!
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The biscuits look yummy wish I had more time to bake.
Sophie
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Hey Sophie, you can make a big batch and freeze the dough. You can then just bake them.
Now these sound nice! I’ve never really baked biscuits as I’ve always thought they were a little boring and plain but these certainly don’t sound plain! My mum would love these 🙂
These have a really good flavour Shona.