Party Ring
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A plate-sized butter biscuit with an Ikea-cup hole is baked, flooded with yellow icing and feathered with red zig-zag lines to make a giant Party Ring.
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2. Mix the all of the ingredients together in one bowl and mix them about until they form a dough. If the dough looks too sticky add some flour until it's not so sticky.
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6. Get that circle of dough on a baking tray and shove it in the oven. There is no definite time for how long it will take because some people will be making them bigger than others, but ours took around 20 minutes.
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Party Rings. Everyone's favourite party food. But what if you like to have giant parties? Then you need a Giant Party Ring.
You will need:
90g Butter
200g Plain Flour
100g Caster Sugar
1 Large Egg
Half Teaspoon Baking Powder
Half Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Half Teaspoon Salt
150g Icing Sugar
Red food colouring
Yellow food colouring
1. Chuck the butter and sugar together in a bowl and cream them until they go pale and look like a mousse. Then beat in the egg and vanilla. In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt.
2. Mix the all of the ingredients together in one bowl and mix them about until they form a dough. If the dough looks too sticky add some flour until it's not so sticky.
3. Coat the dough ball in flour, wrap it up in foil and leave it in the fridge for at least an hour. We chose this moment to go up the pub.
4. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C or Gas Mark 4.
5. Find something large to cut around, we just used a plate. Roll the dough out, place the plate (or whatever) on top of the dough and cut around it with a sharp knife. Press an Ikea style cup down in the middle of the circle of dough to make the hole. Any excess dough can be used to spell rude words and make biscuits out of them, which we did, but didn't feel it appropriate to take any photos.
6. Get that circle of dough on a baking tray and shove it in the oven. There is no definite time for how long it will take because some people will be making them bigger than others, but ours took around 20 minutes.
7. Take the circle out of the oven and stick it on a cooling rack. Once cool, you can get on with the icing.
8. Seive the icing sugar into a bowl and add about a tablespoon of "just-not-boiling" water. Mix it up and add a splash of yellow food colouring. Cake this onto the big biscuit as you feel necessary but don't use all of the icing up.
9. Once you have covered the biscuit in yellow icing, put some red food colouring into the yellow icing. This works fine because red is darker than yellow (duh).
10. Drizzle the red icing over the yellow in an up-down zig-zaggy fashion. Once you have got some nice lines on there, "feather" them using the handle of a knife. Ours turned out rubbish but I think that was down to me. So someone may well be able to perfect it.
And that's it. Clean all the mess up, wait for the icing to go hard and then bonne appetite. It quite obviously tastes nothing like a regular party ring but it looks amazing!
