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Home » World Baking Day: Ted bakes jubilee biscuits

World Baking Day: Ted bakes jubilee biscuits

May 18, 2012 by Sarah / Maison Cupcake

Jubilee Biscuits

Incase you’re wondering, I didn’t do these. Ted did.

It’s only a matter of time until Ted has a blog of his own, tonight I even caught him lining up a silver cake board as a reflector leaned up against some baked bean tins.

Meanwhile, despite best intentions, I did not manage to blog my Forever Nigella entry on the first day or the first week of the month and yikes it is already the 18th.

Jubilee Biscuits

This is a team effort therefore of mummy making cookie dough and icing, Ted doing the rolling, cutting and sprinkling and Grandaddy sitting watching.

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Jubilee Biscuits Jubilee Biscuits

We are using these splendid crown cookie cutters from Lakeland and the dough from Nigella Lawson’s Butter Cut Out Biscuits from How to Be a Domestic Goddess.

These are my, well, Ted’s really, entry into this month’s Forever Nigella which is hosted by Nelly at Nelly’s Cupcakes. You still have until 28th May to submit any new posts featuring Nigella recipes done jubilee style or suitable for street parties.

It was with Nigella’s line about children having “very bad taste indeed” in mind that I submit Ted’s cookies!

Jubilee Biscuits

It’s also great timing to tell you about World Baking Day on May 20th which is being celebrated by Stork. All you need to do to take part is bake a cake, photograph it somewhere interesting and tweet it with the hashtag #Caking that day. The results will be tweeted by World Baking Day’s Twitter account @worldbakingday and published at World Baking Day.

Core baking ingredients such as butter, eggs, sugar and flour have increased by around 60% since I started this site nearly 3 years ago. Baking margarine remains far cheaper than butter and I happily use it for biscuits and bake sales.

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After the biscuits are baked and cooled it’s time to get busy with those sprinkles. I have jubilee coloured sprinkles although Ted also has his eye on some pink ones too.

Jubilee Biscuits

Go easy pouring them out Ted…

Jubilee Biscuits

Ok maybe not.

Jubilee Biscuits

The burnt biscuit in the middle gets drowned in blue sugar crystals!

Jubilee Biscuits

I bought these British Sparkles in Waitrose, they’re a timely selection of red, white and blue sugar crystals conveniently stored in separate compartments so I thought they were worth an investment for future biscuit projects. There’s also a compartment of red, white and blue mixed hundreds and thousands.

My only issue with them is that instead of a round penny sized hole to pour, there’s a whole quarter’s worth of the canister. Which is why Ted ended up drowning his biscuits – I imagine I’d have easily done the same.

Jubilee Biscuits

And just to prove, he’s a dab hand getting the icing on – favouring the mini spatula spreading technique rather than mummy’s pair of teaspoons.

Jubilee Biscuits

All Ted’s own work. I let him dive in right away!

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Truth be told, actually I rolled these biscuits a bit thin today. Ted’s version (above right) was much fatter and despite my fears they would spread in the oven they actually came out better than mine!!!

I let Ted go wild with the sprinkles which accounts for the decidedly casual appearance of these biscuits. I especially like how he crammed six of the big sugar rose sprinkles onto one single crown biscuit. Way to go.

And of course, more interesting than the rack of biscuits he’d laid out, were the two trays of discarded sprinkles.

Jubilee Biscuits

With thanks to Stork for the box of baking bits and vouchers.

PS If you’re as obsessive about sprinkles as Ted why not enter my JustBake.co.uk giveaway which is open until 28th May.

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: bake with mum, blog events, decorated cookies, Nigella Lawson

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Comments

  1. laura@howtocookgoodfood says

    May 18, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    What a fantastic post! I think Nigella herself would be proud and I think Ted has got a lot of potential. Wonder if he could be a future candidate for Junior Bake Off!
    I hope to make lots more Jubilee inspired goodies as it is a great activity to get my kids involved with πŸ™‚

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      May 19, 2012 at 8:35 am

      Yes I’m training Ted early for junior bake off!!! I am confident Nigella would wholeheartedly approve of his efforts!

  2. Jayne says

    May 18, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    Ted did a fabulous job! These Jubilee biscuits are lovely, so festive!!

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      May 19, 2012 at 8:34 am

      Thanks Jayne & Rosa, Ted was very proud of them!

  3. Rosa says

    May 18, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    Well done, Ted! They look so pretty.

    Cheers,

    Rosa

  4. Katie says

    May 19, 2012 at 6:12 am

    Looks like Ted had a lot of fun making these cookies. It’s refreshing how gung ho kids are about cooking. Sam helped me with my World Baking Day recipe and I now keep finding little puddles of lemon icing around the kitchen πŸ˜‰

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      May 19, 2012 at 8:34 am

      Tell me about it, Ted is forever announcing “Let’s Bake Cakes!” at the inopportune moments!

  5. cupcake betty says

    May 19, 2012 at 6:39 am

    Cute kids! Cute cookies! I planned a special day for my kids to do the same thing. Thank you for the idea.

  6. Fuss Free Helen says

    May 19, 2012 at 11:20 am

    Well done Ted. I hope there was not too much of a hoover up sprinkles operation afterwards!

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      May 19, 2012 at 2:28 pm

      That’s why the biscuits were in trays with steep sides!

  7. Made With Pink says

    May 19, 2012 at 11:28 am

    Haha! I love it! Way to go Ted! And Sarah, one day when he’s all grown up and has his own recipe book published you must make sure to speak to the publisher and have one of these crown cookie photos included in the first few pages!

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      May 19, 2012 at 2:29 pm

      Good idea!

  8. Kelly says

    May 19, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    A+ for effort Ted!

  9. Rose says

    May 19, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    Brilliant post. He looks so “natural” baking.

  10. Jacqueline says

    May 19, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    Well done Ted, looks like you had fun!

  11. What Kate Baked says

    May 19, 2012 at 10:45 pm

    Ted’s biscuits rock! I agree with the above comments about Ted’s potential- just make sure you get at least a mention Sarah in the ‘acknowledgments’ section of one of Ted’s future recipe books!

  12. bakingaddict says

    May 20, 2012 at 12:36 am

    Brilliant post! Clearly baking runs in the family – Ted’s a natural! Love these crown cookies and I think the more sprinkles the better πŸ™‚

  13. Karen says

    May 20, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    I LOVE Ted’s Biscuits Sarah and I also LOVE all the photos you have shared so we can see him making them too….a lovely Jubilee post that warms the cockles of my heart and Happy World Baking Day too! Karen

  14. Kate says

    May 24, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    seems like you had a great time! and great biscuits!!! πŸ™‚

    Kate
    Saving Mummys Money
    http://www.Savvymummys.co.uk

  15. purevegetarianbites says

    June 3, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    Well done Ted. I got inspiration from this. I will try this with my son and his friends on his next play date.
    Thanks for the lovely blog πŸ˜‰
    I don’t know if you’ve visited my new vegetarian food blog (cooking and baking) but if you haven’t – I’d like to invite you (you can enjoy it even if you’re not vegetarian).
    Feel free to stop by, say hello and follow the blog so that you’ll be getting daily updates (-:
    http://purevegetarianbites.wordpress.com/

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