If you want to make some simple biscuits for Easter try this recipe! I bake these every year because it’s so quick and easy – sometimes  I use orange, sometimes lemon. Here is the recipe for my Easy Easter cookies:

You’ll need:

• 50g soft sugar
• 50grams of soft butter or  dairy-free margarine
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 200g flour
• ¼ tsp of salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 ½ tsp grated orange zest
• ½ Tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice

How to do it:

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C.
2. Cream the sugar with the butter, then add the beaten eggs and mix it with a wooden spoon until light and creamy.
3. Stir in the salt, baking powder and flour, then  add the orange juice and peel. Mix well, then move it to a lightly floured work surface and knead it with your hands to a dough.
4. Using a rolling pin, roll it out to 5 mm thickness, then stamp out Easter shapes such as eggs, bunnies, flowers, lambs, chickens etc. Actually,  it’s just like using play-doh. In fact you can use your play-doh set (rolling pin and shapes) if you like if you don’t have Easter cookie-cutters!
5. Put the cookies on a lined baking sheet and bake them in the oven for about 10 minutes until they look light brown. Ask an adult to take the baking sheet out of the oven and transfer the cookies to a  rack to cool.
6. When they cooled, decorate them with icing or icing pen. You can also dip them in melted chocolate if you like.

Tip:

This is a really good recipe for biscuits  –  so you can make them for other occasions too!