Party Ring
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A giant ring biscuit baked on a pizza tray is decorated with pink icing and yellow marbling for a birthday celebration.
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Est cost of ingredients: £8 Ingredients list: 100g Butter 200g Plain Flour 100g Caster Sugar 2 medium Eggs 150g Icing Sugar Red food colouring Yellow food colouring
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Step 1: Mix flour, sugar, eggs and butter in the quantities listed above
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Party Ring: the archived recipe
Condensed from the original account by Murray Lip, published 2006-04-15. The quantities and method are the contributor’s; this is not a new kitchen test.
Ingredients recorded
- 100g butter
- 200g plain flour
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 150g icing sugar
- Red food colouring
- Yellow food colouring
The account gives every quantity and an estimated ingredient cost of £8. The icing sugar is split between the two colours without saying how much goes to each.
Method recorded
- Mix the flour, sugar, eggs and butter in the quantities listed.
- Shape the dough into a sausage, lay it onto a pizza tray and flatten it out.
- Score the marks on the biscuit with the back end of a knife.
- Bake for about 25mins at 190degrees, watching for it turning golden brown.
- While the biscuit cools, mix up two colours of icing, quite thick.
- Spread one colour all across the base; with the other, draw lines across then drag them down to make the pattern.
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The original account
Est cost of ingredients: £8
Ingredients list:
100g Butter
200g Plain Flour
100g Caster Sugar
2 medium Eggs
150g Icing Sugar
Red food colouring
Yellow food colouring
No party is complete without a party ring! So we made our housemate a pimped version for her birthday!
Step 1: Mix flour, sugar, eggs and butter in the quantities listed above
Step 2: Shape into a sausage, lay onto a pizza tray then flatten it out!
Step 3: Score the marks on the biscuit with the back end of a knife!
Step 4: Bake! For about 25mins at 190degrees…watch for it turning golden brown!
Step 5: Whilst the biscuit cools, mix up two colours of icing (quite thick!)
Step 6: One colour spreads all across the base. With the other draw lines across then drag them down to make the pattern.
Step 7: Enjoy your pimped up party ring snack!
