Gingerbread Biscuits

Still cooking from Women's Weekly "Kids in the Kitchen", here we have gingerbread biscuits. I felt like baking but not going out to shop for ingredients. This recipe called for household staples such as self raising flour, brown sugar, treacle, egg yolk, ground ginger, mixed spice and bicarb of soda.

The royal icing was made using one egg white beaten to soft peaks, with icing sugar sifted and beaten in. I gave myself a pat on the back for making piping bags out of sandwich bags.

A spoonful of plain white icing was placed in the bag along with a drop or two of food colouring (in the case of orange, that's 2 drops yellow to 1 drop red), tie a knot and mix so that the colour is evenly distributed. Then snip the corner and ice. Some choc chips were added to some smiley stars, to add something extra. My favourite was the carrot shape which iced nicely and looks cute.