Alice In Wonderland's Biscuits..

I've been reading up about Glaze Icing alot lately, it's incredibly easy, you get a lovely glossy shine and with a bit of practise you can decorate biscuits relatively quickly - so what's not to like?! Therefore after a bit of Alice in Wonderland over the festive season, I give you her 'EAT ME!' biscuits, ta-dah!:

To Ice 20 biscuits or 35 bite-sized biscuits, You'll need:

• 1 x batch of Foolproof Biscuits cut into heart shapes
• 250g of icing sugar
• Food colouring of your choice (I use Wilton's food gels, but the choice is yours!)
• 30ml of water
• 40g Liquid Glucose
• Disposable Piping bag
• No.2 Piping nozzle
• Black Edible food Pen
• Edible glitter 

Pop your icing sugar, water and liquid glucose altogether in one bowl and give it a good beat together until it's completely mixed. This'll be a good upper arms workout, as the mixture will be quite thick due to the liquid glucose!

Add your food colouring of choice, a little at a time to build up the colour you want. 

When your happy, the consistency is the next step. Now if you've heard of Glaze Icing before, you'll have heard about the '10 second rule' - it sounds dreadful and hard to judge, but trust me it's very easy.

So continually stirring your icing, drag a ribbon of icing across the bowl and start counting. Exactly on ten seconds the strip of icing should have completely merged back into the rest of the icing. There should be no indent of it left!

If it is disappearing too quickly add a little icing sugar, mix in and try again.
If it is not disappearing on ten, add a splash of water and try again! 

When you've got yor icing exactly on ten seconds transfer to your piping bag with your nozzle in place.

Then carefully ice around the heart shape, so as to create a clear border. Leave to dry for a couple of minutes.

Starting up against the border, fill in the biscuit, gently squeezing out the icing and movng it across.

Repeat for all the biscuits and then leave to dry overnight. 

With your edible Ink Pen, careful add the 'EAT ME!'. Make sure you don't push down too hard on the icing - it will crack!

Dust with edible glitter to your heart's content!

There you have it, Alice In Wonderland's biscuits!

Troubleshooting..

• If you're struggling with the icing, set aside a couple of biscuits to practise on
• Be patient with the icing, only add extra icing sugar and water gently - a little goes a long way!
• Dont worry it your icing leaks slightly over the edge - when it's dried, trim off the leaky icing with a knife:

• Don't worry if you get a fingerprint on the icing - dust over with your edible glitter and no one will know better!