Red Nose Day Cookie Challenge 2013
 
 
Beans Means Dosh - My entry for Sainsbury's Red Nose Day Cookie Challenge
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: British
Ingredients
Cookie
  • 225g butter, softened
  • 110g Caster sugar
  • 275g Plain flour
Icing
  • 100g icing sugar - sieved
  • 15ml water
  • Or you can just buy ready made icing in a tube.
Decoration
  • 1 Block of Marzipan
  • 1 Set Writing Icing Pens (Make sure 1 is orange)
  • 125g Orange Jelly Beans
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 170c
  2. In a large bowl, cream the butter and until it is soft (you can use a food mixer) Add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
  3. Sift the flour into the mixture and using a figure of eight motion bring it all together to form a dough.
  4. Shape into a ball using your hands, wrap in clingfilm and pop it into the fridge for 20 minutes to rest.
  5. Cut about a quarter of the dough and using your hands and a rolling pin shape into a slab about 15cm by 7cm by 0.75cm thick (it will expand during cooking)
  6. Carefully lift the dough and place onto a greased (I use butter) baking tray in the center of your oven for 15 to 20 minutes until they have a light brown colour.
  7. As you have plenty of dough I would suggest making at least two cookie bases.Cookie BaseRoll any left over dough into 3cm balls, flatten with the palm of your hand and bake as simple biscuits. Just make sure that you leave enough distance between everything on the baking tray to allow for expansion.
  8. Carefully remove from the baking tray and allow to cool on a wire rack.
  9. Mix the sieved icing sugar and water together in a basin
  10. Beat until smooth.The icing should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. If it's too thin add more icing sugar, if too thick a few drops of water. Either way do it a little by little.
  11. If you have made your own icing now spoon it into a piping bag with a flat nozzle.
  12. You might find it easier to put the cookie base on a small board to make it easier to handle and rotate.
  13. First build the bath edges from your icing. Using a flat nozzle pipe icing around the edge of the base. Once you have completed the first layer you can then pipe another one inside the first so your edge is 2 wide. Then you can repeat the process on top of the first layers. I did three layers on mine. You can smooth out the edges by dipping the tip of your finger in a glass of water and smoothing the icing.Cookie Bath Edging
  14. Next construct the figure.Cut off a piece of the marzipan and form a block approximately three quarters of the width of the distance between the bath edges and about 3cm high. This will be the body.
  15. Take two smaller pieces of marzipan and roll to form the arms (see picture). I used a knife to make 3 small cuts into the end of the arms to give the illusion of hands.
  16. Take another two small pieces and flatten for the feet. Again make some cuts to imply toes.
  17. Stick all these pieces onto the base using some of the left over icing.
  18. Using the orange writing icing outline the inside edge of the bath also tracing round the body, arms and feet.Figure in Bath
  19. On a chopping board and using a sharp knife cut the ends off the jelly beans so that you have a lot of small orange domes. These will be our baked beans.Jelly Beans
  20. Using a drop of the orange writing icing as a glue stick these domes onto the base to fill in the space.Making the Beans
  21. Then using the orange writing icing again, fill in all the gaps between the jelly bean domes.
  22. Finally make two further marzipan balls, one for the head and one for the nose. Stick the nose onto the head using the icing. As my writing icing also contained red, green and yellow tubes I coloured the nose red, for obvious reasons, added a stripe for a mouth and two small dots of green for eyes. I then stuck the head to the body again using the icing.The Finished Cookie
  23. Stand back and admire!Finished Item
Recipe by Corpulent Capers at https://www.corpulentcapers.com/red-nose-day-cookie-challenge-2013/