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Smiley Face Biscuit

by Stacey Richmond and Cerian Powell 12 photos Rated 76% 165 votes when voting closed

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Two large shortbread discs sandwich jam and buttercream, with a smiling face cut into the top biscuit.

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The finished sandwiched biscuit face, jam and cream showing through the eyes and mouth, four ordinary smiley biscuits around it

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  • Two bored students on a cold Sunday afternoon, a freshly cleaned student kitchen and a few simple ingredients, none measured, mixed into a goo and then something more appetising. A rolling pin was found, to their surprise, the dough rolled out and a clean plate, a luxury in a student house, used to cut the circle. The smiley face was cut by hand, the eyes made with a shot glass and the centre of one eye became the nose, stuck on with milk, with dimples added for cuteness. It went into the oven while a second biscuit without a face was made for the base, with no temperature or time given; jam and buttercream went between them. It took a couple of hours and a few pounds, fed 6 happy students and left ingredients for another project. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8 · Source 9 · Source 10 · Source 11 · Source 12 · Source 13 · Source 14
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Starting point – take a freshly cleaned student kitchen, 2 bored students (not shown in photo!!), and a few simple ingredients.

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After mixing ingredients into something a little more appetising, hunt high and low for a rolling pin!! (we were surprised to find one!!) roll out mixture

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On a cold Sunday afternoon, after reminiscing of our childhood food likes and dislikes, and being students, having plenty of time on our hands, we decided to make a biscuit based on the ‘smiley faces’ biscuits. However, we could’nt just make normal biscuits, and so decided to make one big one instead!! Here are the pictures we took throughout or project.

Starting point – take a freshly cleaned student kitchen, 2 bored students (not shown in photo!!), and a few simple ingredients.

Ingredients on a kitchen worktop: flour, Silver Spoon sugar, Hartley's jam, a block of butter and scales

Start to mix said simple ingredients together, producing a delicious and appetising goo!

Pale creamed butter and sugar mixture being beaten with a wooden spoon in a metal bowl

After mixing ingredients into something a little more appetising, hunt high and low for a rolling pin!! (we were surprised to find one!!) roll out mixture

Rolling a large disc of biscuit dough flat on a floured board, jam jars behind

Find a clean plate (a luxury in a student house!!) use plate to make circle in the cookie dough.

Cutting round an upturned dinner plate with a knife to trim the dough into a circle

With an incredibly steady hand, cut a smiley face!!

Tracing a long curved smile into the rolled dough circle with the tip of a knife

using a shot glass (we appeared to have plenty of these!!) make eye holes, using the centre of one of the eyes to make the cut little nose (stuck on with some milk)

Lifting the cut-out mouth from the dough disc with a small purple cutter

add and dimples to make extra cute!

Raw dough smiley face on baking parchment with four normal-sized smiley biscuits at the corners

put in oven (whilst cookin make another biscuit, without a face for the base)

Sliding the tray with the giant smiley face into the oven of a black gas cooker

remove smiley face from oven when nicely baked

The baked biscuit face on its tray, pale gold with cut-out eyes, nose and grin

add some jam

Spreading red Hartley's jam across the baked biscuit base with a spoon, jar alongside

add some buttercream

Spreading buttercream around the ring of jam on the biscuit base with a palette knife

voila!! One extra large smiley face and 6 happy students!! (lol the smiley face won’t be around for very long!!) The little biscuits are there to show the size difference between our beauty and the shop bought snack!!

The finished sandwiched biscuit face, jam and cream showing through the eyes and mouth, four ordinary smiley biscuits around it

It took us a couple of hours, and only cost a few pounds and we even hove some ingredients left to try a new project!!

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