Honey Jumbles

Ingredients:

Honey Jumbles
125g unsalted butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
¾ cup brown sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
3Tbsp honey
1¼ cups SR flour
1 cup plain flour
1Tbsp ground ginger
1Tbsp mixed spice
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

Icing
1½ cups pure icing sugar, sifted
pink [or another colour] food colouring

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Line 2 oven trays with baking paper. Beat the butter and vanilla until creamy, then add the sugar and beat until the mixture has increased in volume and is paler in colour. Add the eggs and honey, beat until well combined.

Sift the dry ingredients, add to the butter mixture, stir to combine. Put mixture in a nylon bag fitted with a plain 1cm pipe. Pipe mixture onto prepared trays into 8-10cm lengths. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden and firm. Stand trays on a wire rack to cool. When cold top biscuits with icing. Stand on a wire rack until the icing is set.

To make the icing: Put the icing sugar in a heatproof basin and add enough warm water and a few drops of food colouring until the mixture is a stiff paste. Stand the bowl over simmering water and stir until mixture is of a spreading consistency.