- Nov 13, 2017
#BarbourChristmas: How to Ice The Snowman Biscuits
autumn winter 2017
- Combine 4 egg whites with 900g of icing sugar into a mixing bowl.
- Whisk or beat for about 5 minutes using an electric beater, or whisk until the consistency of toothpaste.
- Begin whisking slowly to avoid billowing clouds of icing sugar.
- Split your line icing into four batches.
- Three of the batches will each need to be coloured; black, orange and green.
- Use paste colours rather than food colouring, which will alter your icing consistency.
- Cover with cling film if not using immediately, and fill your piping bag when ready to use.
STEP 2. Making the flood-icing...
- Combine 150ml of cold water with 900g of icing sugar into a mixing bowl.
- As with the line-icing, whisk or beat for about 5 minutes using an electric beater or whisk.
- Add small amounts of water to make this a little runnier than the line-icing.
- Split about a 5th of your icing out into a bowl and colour with green paste colouring.
- Decant your line icing into piping bags then slowly trace the outline of the snowman’s body and hat with the line icing, using white for his body and green for his hat.
- This will stop the runny flood icing from escaping from the biscuit.
- The line icing will need to be left to dry at room temperature for 10 minutes.
- Fill the body of 'The Snowman' with the white flood icing and his hat with the green flood icing.
- You can either do this by filling squeeze bottles with the icing, or you can spoon the icing onto the biscuit and use a cocktail stick to nudge the icing into the corners and pop any air bubbles.
- Be careful not to overfill the biscuit with the flood icing, or damage any of the outline.
- Set your oven to its lowest temperature (usually around 50°C).
- Carefully lay the biscuits onto a baking tray and pop them back into your oven for 40 minutes.
- Your biscuits won’t burn, the low heat of the oven will dry the icing and create a glossy looking professional finish.
- Leave the biscuits to cool for half an hour.
- With the black line-icing you can begin to add 'The Snowman’s' three buttons, eyes and a mouth.
- Using the green line icing to give him a scarf and add the detail to his hat; both Barbour of course.
- Last but not least, add his orange nose.
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Let your biscuits dry for around 15 minutes at room temperature, then pack them up for your friends and family for Christmas gifts they’ll always remember.
