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Perfect Party Ring

by Florence McMullen 6 photos Rated 64% 17 votes when voting closed

Ingredients:
400g plain flour
180g softened butter
2 eggs
100g caster sugar
lots of icing sugar
pink and yellow food colouring

Ingredients on the kitchen table: flour, caster sugar, eggs, butter chunks on digital scales, food colouring

Step 1:
Cream the butter and the sugar together. Then mix in the egg after beating it.

Beaten egg poured into creamed butter and sugar while a hand stirs the bowl with a wooden spoon

Step 2:
Fold in the flour and mix it into a dough.

Step 3:
Roll the dough into a long shape and attatch the two ends to make a circle. Flatten the circle out and mark the biscuit carefull with diagonal lines. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.

Raw shortbread dough shaped into a giant ring on parchment, scored with lines, on a baking tray

Step 4:
Leave the biscuit to cool for 30 minutes.

The baked shortbread ring, pale gold and filling the whole baking tray

Step 5:
Mix two amounts of icing sugar with the food colourings and cover the cooled biscuit with the pink icing.

Yellow icing spooned over the pink-iced giant biscuit, a mixing bowl of icing held alongside

Step 6:
Drip the yellow icing in lines across the party ring.

Step 7:
Leave the icing to set on the party ring… then eat!

Finished giant party ring, pink icing with yellow drizzle, an ordinary party ring beside it for scale

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