Rainbow Fridge Biscuits

(Goblin is 28 months)

Goblin and I did some baking today. As usual we started with Goblin washing his hands - which gives me a fab excuse to show you a photo of the beautiful flowers Hublet bought me for our 7th wedding anniversary this week. 

I decided to try and make rainbow fridge biscuits. I got the idea from B Inspired Mama. But rather than using ready made cookie dough I thought it would be more fun for Goblin if we made the dough from scratch.

 If you want to make the dough from scratch you will need:

150g sugar

150g butter

225g plain flour

1 egg

vanilla essence (optional)

Biscuits are cooked for 15 minutes on 190C (375F or Gas Mark 5) 

I measured all the ingredients into little bowls and then laid them out on the floor and Goblin put them into the big mixing bowl and mixed them up (minus some of the butter which went straight into his mouth).

Then Goblin got bored of mixing and decided to climb onto my back and ride me like a pony while I carried on mixing the ingredients. When it was all mixed in I split the mixture into three bowls.

He dismounted when it was time to add the food colouring. We used Dr Oetker Gel Food Colouring. You need quite a bit to get a vibrant colour. It took some persuading to stop Goblin from adding all the colours to every bowl.

I put the finished dough in the fridge for half an hour so it hardened enough to roll without sticking to the rolling pin. At this point Goblin decided to go and watch Mr Tumble on TV - this was probably just as well because the next bit was a bit fiddley.

I rolled each of the colours out on greaseproof paper (baking parchment) and laid them on top of each other. Then I trimmed the edges off so it made a rectangle. I rolled the rectangle up and popped it back in the fridge for another half hour so it was solid enough to cut.

 Then I chopped the roll into half centimetre segments - I turned the roll after each cut to try and keep the biscuits as round as possible.

The recipe says cook the biscuits for 15 minutes. The trouble is when the biscuits came out of the oven they looked exactly the same as when they went in. Normally you can tell if you need to cook biscuits for longer by their colour but with these you just have to believe the recipe.

 I really love how they look.

 When I gave Goblin one he said "whats that?". I said "its a biscuit". He looked at me dubiously.

But the seem to have got the Goblin seal of approval. 

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