England’s Iced Gem
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A giant Iced Gem with a crushed Rich Tea biscuit base and layers of red, white and blue icing, made as an England-themed snack.
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- The account gives an Iced Gem as less than a gram and England’s Iced Gem as 1.6kg, from 1kg of icing sugar, 500g of Rich Tea biscuits, 150g of butter, various food colourings and silver balls for decoration. Four colourings were bought before the makers settled on red, white and blue. The base was a packet and a half of Rich Tea biscuits mixed with butter and set in the fridge for an hour. Red icing was piped onto the base, after one maker put the colouring in his mouth and turned his teeth red; plain white icing went on top; the blue had to wait until the white had set, and the whole then spent about 40 minutes in the freezer before decorating. The gem flopped towards the end. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7
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Iced Gem – Less than a gram
England’s Iced Gem – 1.6kg
1kg Icing Sugar
500g Rich Tea Biscuits
150g Butter
Various Food Colourings
Silver Balls (decoration)
After a long day out and a week of hard thinking we came up with the idea to do an Iced Gem! At first we thought about the colours and bought four different food colourings, Blue, Red, Green and yellow. We then decided to do the England flag colours, well we do need to support our country, so Red, White and Blue it was.
We started of by making the biscuit base, easy really just a packet and a half of rich tea biscuits and butter mixed together and left to set in the fridge for an hour.
Then it was for the fun part! The icing!!! We started off with the Red icing. Nik decided to put the red food colouring in his mouth and turned his teeth and lips bright red! Apart from that Abby and Joy got on and got it all ready, Nik pulled himself together and piped the icing onto the biscuit base.
Next was the white icing sugar, simple really just make normal icing and plonk it on top of the Red icing.
After that was the Blue icing, we had to wait a while though because we had to wait until the white icing had set before starting again.
We put the Blue icing on and then put it in the freezer for about 40 minutes. Got it out and then decorated it. Unfortunately the England’s Iced Gem decided to flop towards the end, let’s hope England doesn’t!!!!!
