Upcoming project is an embossed rolling pin. I still need to do the design work but it will have a festive feel to it. The idea is to use the rolling pin to emboss the the dough to make a nice pattern for biscuits (cookies) and pastry.
So far I have the blank rolling pin but by the end of the weekend I hope to have it designed, made and used on some cookies. Watch this space....
I pulled this simple recipe from the Great British Bakeoff Site:
Ingredients:
125g unsalted butter
55g caster sugar, plus extra to sprinkle
200g plain flour
METHOD
Step 1 Put the butter and sugar in the bowl of a food processor and blitz until well combined. Add the flour and pulse briefly until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Step 2 Tip out the mixture onto a work surface and gently bring it together, then knead it into a dough. Once the dough is formed, wrap it in cling film and chill for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/400°F/Gas 6.
Step 3 Once the dough has chilled, lightly flour the work surface and roll out the dough until it is about 3mm thick (about the thickness of a £1 coin). Use the 6cm fluted cutter to stamp out 16 biscuits, re-rolling the trimmings as necessary.
Step 4 Place the biscuits on the lined baking sheet and chill for another 5 minutes, then use a fork to prick a few lines of holes in the centre of each. Sprinkle the biscuits with a little caster sugar and bake for 10–12 minutes, or until lightly golden.
Step 5 Remove the biscuits from the oven and allow to cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes. Then, transfer the biscuits to a wire rack to cool completely. The biscuits will keep in a sealed container for up to 1 week.
Instead of using the fork to prick the biscuits I figure the embossed rolling pin should provide a nice pattern.
Does anyone have any other biscuit/cookie recipes that might wrk with my limited baking skills? Also ideas for what to include on the embossed images?
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