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75g butter (room temperature)
75g caster sugar
1/2 free-range organic egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
125g (Zeeland) flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Icing sugar
green fondant icing
yellow fondant icing
tiny piece of chocolate
You also need:
a turtle cookie cutter
Tomorrow, on Earth Day, we’re having little sea turtles with our tea. Not real ones, of course, but cookies. We have a beautiful book to read tomorrow about the Giant Tortoise, but that turtle wouldn't go with tea.
The book is about Darwin's theory of evolution, by the author retold for children and she has also illustrated the book brilliantly. We’re baking the cookies today, so tomorrow after school we’ll have a little Earth Day party. Together with the little mini-monsters; they love it, and so do we ;))
How to bake sea turtle biscuits
Mix butter and sugar creamy.
Mix in the half egg.
Then mix in the vanilla.
Scrape the edges of the bowl.
Add flour and baking powder to a clean bowl.
Mix it until well combined.
Gradually sift it into the butter mixture.
Scrape the edges of the bowl clean
Knead the dough briefly by hand.
Wrap the dough in a cloth or baking paper.
Let the dough chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
Place baking paper on the baking tray
Roll the dough to approximately 1 cm thickness.
Cut out turtles, using the cookie cutter.
Place the turtles on a baking tray lined with waxed paper.
Cover the biscuits and place them back in the refrigerator for another 30 minutes, then they will not run out, during baking
Preheat the oven to 170°C
Bake the biscuits for 10-12 minutes in the middle of the oven.
Meanwhile knead the fondant icing and sprinkle icing sugar on the mat.
Roll the fondant thinly and cut out the turtles.
Cut out the yellow shells as well and cut the excess off.
Allow the biscuits to cool on the tray for a moment.
Then move the biscuits to a wire rack.
Stick the fondant on the cooled biscuits.
Dab chocolate eyes on the heads of the little turtles.
Let the eyes dry weill and store the biscuits in a cookie tin.
Happy Earth Day to you all!