Terrifyingly delicious!
If you are a regular reader of my little blog, you'll know I'm a massive fan of Biscuiteers, I ran a Peter Rabbit comp and tried out on of their icing classes. I think one of the reasons I love Biscuiteers so much is because the literally have a biscuit for ever occassion and they always look so amazing and well thought out. They make the cutest little gifts for friends or family. They have Birthday Biscuits, Thank You Biscuits, Wedding Biscuits and they have great seasonal too ranges such as Christmas Biscuits and of course Halloween Biscuits.
This is where this little fella comes in, he is the Dracula Jolly Ginger which is a rather yummy ginger breadman. I think I like Halloween so much because it's just the perfect excuse to wear even more black than what I normally do. It's a fun (very commercialised) little day and I like going out for drinks and all of the other festivities that come with it. I would like to host a Halloween party actually, but not like one from my teens, oh boy those parties always ended up a little wild but more of a grown up version. Whilst you'd be able to go an get a bunch of Halloween things really cheaply from supermarkets I'd still want to do something that stood out a little. Like for example these Sugar Skull Biscuits, I am literally in love with them. A box costs around £30 you actually get 9 biscuits and the tin they come in is just so cute, it would be a perfect addition to any party. If you were thinking more along the lines of a little gift for you pals to take home then they also have these gruesome Finger Biscuits or even a Witch.
The ginger biscuit itself, it's really delicious too, very rich in flavour with a prefect crunch, I had mine with a hot chocolate!
I really love how Biscuiteers have a biscuit for pretty much every occassion.
What are you favourite treats to have on Halloween?
I was recently invited* to attend an Icing Class at Biscuiteers in Notting Hill. If you don't know much about Biscuiteers, they specialise in beautifully decorated iced biscuits. They really do offer a range of different types to suit everyone and their tag line is "Why send flowers when you could send biscuits" This is actually a very good point, flowers are going to die but these pretty biscuits will leave a much fonder memory for the recipient.
The 2 hour long icing class actually takes place down stairs from the cafe which is a nice touch because you're completely surrounded by biscuits. We were welcomed by the very lovely Michelle who handed each of us our very own Biscuiteers apron. There was 6 of us in this class, there was a small group of women who were having a real blast, myself and another lady.
When we first sat down Michele asked us to practice on some grease-proof paper just so that we can start getting used to how to hold the bags, which sounds silly I know but actually it's very important otherwise you could squeeze too much of the product out and it just looks a mess. I went to the Festival themed icing class which meant that we had a variety of festival type of cookie shapes such as wellies, beer glass, camp fire and even a camping van
In the class you primarly use two types of icing, the line icing which is a really simple royal icing recipie and the flood/liquid icing which is exactly the same as the line icing but it's slightly runnier so you can fill in the spaces. I'm not going to lie to you, I really struggled with the straight lines, I was squeezing too hard and not moving my hand quick enough which made it look all wobbly but it was my first time.
The flood icing was much easier to use because you squeeze a massive blob in the middle and use the end of the nozzle to spread it around the biscuit. Then we were advised to tap the top of the biscuit with the skewer to pop any bubbles that may remain underneath the surface. Once you filled in the biscuits they went back in the oven at a very low temperature to harden the icing but not actually cook the biscuit any more.
Once they came back out of the oven we were ready to add more detail to them using the line icing again. The detailing definitely helped to make mine look a little better. The really fun biscuit to ice was the flames because you mixed the orange and yellow flood icing together by running a skewer over the top of it creating a marbled effect, so pretty.
Michelle was the most perfect teacher, really chatty and involved everyone. She gave us lots of advice and support and even when I put my rather ugly creations on the board she always said "oh they look lovely" even if they really didn't.
The end result...
Ok, so I'm never going to be offered a job to work at Biscuiteers. Yes, I know I have a lot of work to do but let's face it, I'm just not very artistic. But this Festival Icing Class was fun. If you are into icing or would love to give it a go the you absolutely must try one of these classes out for yourself. They even do Icing Lates where you can ice biscuits with a glass of bubbly in your hand, in the evening
I would definitely recommend it to groups of people, Biscuiteers run a variety of different classes and themes so there is definitely something for everyone. They also present you with a little certificate and you get a gorgeous metal tin to take your biscuits home in as well as the apron. I think it's fantasic. The cost of these classes are a little pricey at £78 but for everything you get with it and the skills and techniques you can learn it's definitely worth it.
Would you ever go to an icing class?
*Invited by Biscuiteers to review
As you know last week I ran a competition with Biscuiteers where my very lovely reader Lauren guessed correctly where Peter was and won her own set of biscuits.
But I thought I would do a separate post to kind of introduce the brand to my other readers a little more. If you haven't heard of Biscuiteers, they hand make just the most gorgeous range of biscuits and all biscuits are hand iced. The actually sell in places like Fortnum and Mason too. They do various different ranges for different occasions such as birthdays, christenings, weddings etc. They also sell a range of cakes, chocolates and icing/baking equipment as well.
I haven't tried anything from Biscuiteers before so I was incredibly excited to run this competition because it meant that I actually got to try this brand out.
I must say that this little Peter rabbit is just the cutest little biscuit I've ever seen, I really didn't want to eat it at first. Biscuiteers really own the food gifting space because I know if I was sent a range of these biscuits I would feel pretty special. I love the detailing in the icing on this biscuit and they just so so many different varieties it's hard not to fall in love.They have even released a Beatrix Potter tin that is so sweet and perfect for Easter or any occasion really, I think this would be great for christenings or a gift for a child's birthday.
I must admit this was a pretty yummy biscuit too, it was a real treat considering I haven't had a biscuit in about 3 months I really enjoyed this one.
Have you ever bought or been sent anything from Biscuiteers before?
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Today is a very exciting post because I'm involved with the Biscuiteers #wherespeter campaign and I'm running a competition where one of my beautiful followers get a chance to win their own Peter Rabbit biscuit plus 3 other little biscuity friends
The competition will run from 23rd March to 1st April 2015 and all you have to do to enter is look at the picture below and guess which London landmark is Peter visiting?
How to enter:
1. Simply write your answer in a comment with your twitter name
2. I'll pick a winner on 2nd April 2015 by getting in touch with the person on Twitter
3. The biscuits will get sent to the winner in the post
4. This is a UK competition only
Your Prize
Goodluck!
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