Recipe: Iced Gems

Everyone at Sorted remembered these little sugary biscuits from our childhood... but we didn't even know you could still buy them. We grabbed ourselves a bag and were massively disappointed. They weren't what we remembered so we set out to fix that!
Ingredients
- 200 g plain flour
- 100 g cold cubed butter
- 100 g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp golden syrup
- 500 g royal icing sugar
- 4 tbsp cold water
- 3 coloured food gels

Step 1
Preheat Oven
Preheat an oven to 180°C.

Step 2
Mix Butter, Flour & Sugar
Rub the butter into the flour using your fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs. Stir the sugar through the mix.

Step 3
Finish The Biscuit Dough
Beat the egg in a small bowl and add to the biscuit dough with the golden syrup. Press together until you have one smooth cookie dough.

Step 4
Chill And Roll Out
Sandwich between two sheets of greaseproof paper and chill for an hour. Roll to the a thickness of 1/2cm between the two sheets.

Step 5
Cut And Bake
Cut circular biscuits 2cm across and transfer to a lined baking tray. Bake for 6 minutes, then rest for a while before moving to a wire rack to cool.

Step 6
Make The Icing
Beat the royal icing in a bowl with the water for 4-5 minutes until you have stiff peaks. Divide the icing between 4 bowls and add a drop of a colour to 3 of them.

Step 7
Add The Icing
Place the icing into piping bags with star nozzles and pipe small blobs onto each biscuit.

Step 8
Leave To Set
Leave to set at room temperature before piling them onto a serving platter and allowing guests to help themselves. Makes 40.