I was lucky enough to come across a beautiful upcycled cake stand at the ’1000 volts of vintage’ fair this weekend in Manchester. It’s once a month in the basement of the Bay Horse pub in the Northern Quarter, where you can browse the array of vintage finds whilst listening to soul & chill out music from the DJ. I was keen to use my new cake stand today when a friend came over for a cup of tea, and needed some homemade dainty treats to offer. I wanted to make fondant fancies, but didn’t have a lot of time to spare, so decided on a tried & tested biscuit recipe.
It’s Nigella’s butter biscuit recipe that you can find in her Domestic Goddess book. The recipe is online courtesy of the Food Network – although it is half the quantities that are in the book, it will still make about 20 biscuits. The dough is quite soft and gooey, so you need to allow time to refridgerate it before rolling it out. For a touch of vintage I used some cool butterfly cutters like these from DotComGiftshop, and pleasingly the biscuits held their shape whilst baking. With inexpensive ingredients and minimal effort I had some tasty treats fitting to serve on my lovely cakestand.
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