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Sometimes – sometimes I repeat – I like to go a bit fancy with my baking. But still, I’m not a star baker, never will be, I’m just a mum with limited free time, so I like to keep things simple and get things done quickly. I’m sure I’m not alone with this. I can’t bake big birthday cakes with beautiful icing and decorating them – although I managed to bake my own wedding cake with the help of my mother-in-law – but sometimes, simple things and a little bit of creativity goes a long way. I’m good at baking simple and quick things, like cookies and biscuits. Adding a little bit of extra flavour, swapping a few ingredients for others always works out safely well.
Tips when making these vegan lemon biscuits
This time, I made lemon and vanilla biscuits, simply using my favourite vegan biscuit recipe and adding some extra flavouring. Still super simple. Adding some icing to it and edible flower petals (gifted by Polly’s Petals) made them look super fancy, instantly. And that means, literally just sprinkling a few edible petals over them – but what an effect! They are also fantastic as 100% biodegradable wedding confetti, can make tea with them or use them for home made bath bombs.
Lemon and vanilla makes a good match, as long as none of them are too overwhelming. Hence, I only used fresh lemon zest and juice and no concentrate. I didn’t add any flavours to the icing – I just find the flavoured icing sugar too much.
Can I use dried flowers for cake decorating?
Yes, you can. Many flowers are both edible and they are aesthetically pleasing too. In fact both dried and fresh flowers can be used, dried flowers are just more convenient to keep in the cupboard for when you need them and for when they are not in season. I wrote a blog post and listed the common edible flowers in the UK, so take a look, you might want to plant some for next season.
Hope you like it! Enjoy.
Vegan Vanilla Lemon Biscuits
Ingredients
- 250 g vegan margarine room temperature
- 350 g plain flour
- 160 g white caster sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 zest of a lemon
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175 Celsius. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- Lightly dust a clean surface with flour and roll the dough out with a rolling pin and cut the biscuits out with a cookie cutter. Bake them for 10-13 minutes. For my biscuits, it took 12 minutes. I like them slightly golden brown on the edges.
- If you use icing, you can make it at home just by combining icing sugar with some water and adding a splash of lemon juice to the mixture. I also used edible flower petals for decorating.
4 comments
Such a lovely idea to use edible petals!
I am sitting working in the public library and I swear I could eat all of these! Delicious!
They look so pretty with the edible petals
just tried this recipe and it was so easy no faffing about combining separate ingredients just threw it all in together and mixed by hand, they’re delicious and a have the perfect crunch, so quick and easy and the added bonus is that they’re vegan too! Thanks for sharing this recipe!