I’ve written previously about my adoration for Biscuiteers and wondered about how to make them myself. I guess I just lacked the enthusiasm to have a go myself.

Upon opening an email from Biscuiteers a while ago, I discovered they were, in fact, bringing out a book called Biscuiteers Book of Iced Biscuits! Oh the excitement! Another beautiful book to add to my overflowing bookshelf. I’ve been mega busy of late, but having had a spare day off after coming back from Edinburgh and having just bought a beautiful cupcake shaped cookie cutter from Peter Maturi (not available on their website) I decided it was high time I got my bake on and have a go at making some beautiful biscuits.

The book is extremely inspirational and gave me lots of ideas and plenty of tips on getting the best biscuit and how best to make royal icing and pipe it. I think my biscuits turned out pretty good for a first attempt! My piping skills are a little rusty since my sugarcraft course, not helped by the fact I ballsed up the piping bag by cutting too big a hole, but still for eager first try I think I did OK.

The entire process probably took about 3 hours to make 18 biscuits – the more colours you have the longer it’ll take to make up the different icings and pipe or fill all the different sections of the biscuits. It’s completely worth it though! These kinds of biscuits will make great gifts when you’re a bit broke – time and effort put in is always much more meaningful that the amount spent.

Whilst I doubt that the recipe for the Biscuits is actually the one they use (come on, they wouldn’t give away their real recipe) the biscuits were absolutely delicious even though I overcooked mine a bit due to a overly hot oven. The feedback from my colleagues was extremely encouraging although I’m not sure they are an entirely reliable source as they’ll eat anything being given away!

If you are interested in buying the Biscuiteers Book of Iced Biscuits, Amazon is the cheapest place to get it:

Yummy yummy yummy it feels good in my tummy! That’s the only way I can describe these beautiful biscuits.

I’ve known about Biscuiteers for a while having learnt about them in various magazines articles and being naturally interested in such a specialist online business. I’d never bought a box because they’re more of a special treat that you buy someone else and I wasn’t sure they’d live up to their fame.

So when I got the email telling my I’d won a box from their newsletter competition, I jumped for joy! A couple of days later, the parcel arrived at work. My colleagues and I all admired the same level of quality in the presentation as we do for our products. The box was beautifully decorated with a a bakery motif, the inside wrapped with gorgeous bright pink wax paper. Each biscuit is “glued” onto the layer dividers with chocolate so they don’t break, ensuring they arrive in perfect condition.

It says a lot that I’ve got to this point and haven’t even told you what the contents were like. I will get to that now. The biscuits are hand iced and beautifully. The designs are inventive and there’s many different ranges to choose from. My set was a Wimbledon one, featuring tiny little tennis balls, racquets, shoes, sunglasses and a scoreboard to name but a few! The variety was amazing and there were actually 3 layers of biscuits in the box!

Now to the taste: As soon as crunched into one, I could taste the intense chocolatey taste I don’t think I’ve tasted in a biscuit for a long while (value Bourbons just don’t cut, and chocolate digestives don’t count because they’ve got a layer of chocolate on them) and they were lovely and crumbly to boot. I gave them a good dunking in my tea but didn’t manage to succeed in losing half my biscuit to the cup either.

Plus they use only natural ingredients so I felt slightly healthier indulging my sweet tooth.

Having tried these delectable delights I have no doubt that I’ll be buying them again as a present or you can subsitute them a card (they do a single one just for that!).

Prices are £37.50 for a box or £8.00 for a single one, but I absolutely promise you that you won’t be disappointed.

Yes, I definitely want some of those Biscuiteers biscuits »