Make a complete photo voltaic system out of your kitchen with our tremendous cute planet cookies! The baking and adorning will maintain even essentially the most energetic kids busy over the half-term break

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:1 hr and 30 minutes
  • Cook dinner:10 minutes – 12 minutes
• Extra effort
• makes 20

• Freezable (raw dough solely)

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Components

• 100g unsalted butter, softened
• 100g golden caster sugar
• 1 egg, calmly crushed
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 280g plain flour, plus additional for dusting
• 250g royal icing sugar
• crimson, blue, inexperienced, yellow, orange and black gel meals colouring
• caramel flavouring (for brown color)
• gold edible glitter (non-obligatory)

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Warmth oven to 190C/170C fan/fuel 5. Line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Utilizing an electrical whisk, beat the butter and sugar collectively in a big mixing bowl till pale and fluffy. Regularly beat within the egg and vanilla extract.

• STEP 2

  Stir within the flour, then knead the combination briefly to make a dough. Divide the dough in half. One half can now be frozen or chilled to make one other batch of biscuits. On a floured work floor, roll out the remaining dough to the thickness of a £1 coin. Utilizing plain spherical biscuit cutters, minimize out the next dimension biscuits: 1 x 8cm, 2x7cm, 4x6cm, 2x5cm and 1×3.5cm.

• STEP 3

  Rigorously switch the biscuits to the ready baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes till pale golden brown. Depart them on the baking sheet for five minutes, then switch to a wire rack to chill utterly.

• STEP 4

  Combine the icing sugar with 2-3 tbsp water to make a easy, spreadable icing – it shouldn’t be too runny. Spoon 1 tsp of the icing right into a small bowl and blend sufficient yellow meals colouring to make it brilliant yellow, then use to cowl the biggest biscuit and put aside to dry.

• STEP 5

  Spoon 2 tsp of the white icing into one other small bowl and blend in sufficient blue meals colouring to make it a brilliant, gentle blue. Use slightly of this icing to cowl a 6cm biscuit to make Uranus. Put aside to dry.

• STEP 6

  Add slightly extra blue color to the blue icing and use slightly to cowl one other 6cm biscuit, to make the water on the Earth. Put aside to dry. Add slightly extra color to the blue icing and canopy one other 6cm biscuit. Utilizing a cocktail stick, swirl slightly additional blue meals color and white icing onto this iced biscuit to make Neptune. Put aside to dry. Add slightly extra blue and a tiny little bit of black meals colouring to the blue icing and unfold it over the three.5 cm biscuit to make Pluto. Put aside to dry.

• STEP 7

  For Mercury, spoon 1 tbsp of the white icing into one other bowl and add sufficient of the caramel flavouring to make a beige color. Unfold slightly of it over a 5cm biscuit. Utilizing a cocktail stick, swirl slightly additional caramel flavouring into the icing on the biscuit. Put aside to dry.

• STEP 8

  Unfold slightly of the beige icing over a 7cm biscuit. Utilizing a cocktail stick, swirl in slightly crimson meals colouring and white icing to make the patterns of Jupiter. Put aside to dry.

• STEP 9

  For Saturn, add slightly yellow meals colouring to the beige icing and unfold it over the opposite 7cm biscuit, leaving a 1cm border across the edge. Use a cocktail follow swirl slightly yellow meals colouring into the icing and put aside to dry.

• STEP 10

  For Venus, add slightly orange meals colouring to the beige icing and unfold some over the remaining 6cm biscuit. Utilizing a cocktail stick, swirl in slightly orange. Put aside to dry.

• STEP 11

  To complete Earth, spoon 1tsp white icing into one other small bowl and add sufficient inexperienced meals colouring to make it brilliant inexperienced. Blob slightly of the inexperienced icing over elements of the blue icing.

• STEP 12

  For Mars, spoon 1tsp white icing right into a small bowl and add sufficient crimson meals colouring to make it brilliant crimson. Unfold the crimson icing over a 5cm biscuit. Utilizing a cocktail stick, swirl slightly crimson meals colouring into the icing. Put aside to dry.

• STEP 13

  Match a plain nozzle to a piping bag and add the remaining white icing. Pipe 2 stripes across the center of the Saturn biscuit to provide it its rings. When you like, you possibly can sprinkle the Mercury and Venus biscuits with slightly edible gold glitter to make them sparkle.