Howard's Iced Tea Biscuits

Join Howard Middleton (GBBO contestant from series 4) live from Sheffield who will teach you the skills you need to make his awesome Iced Biscuits flavoured with aromatic Earl Grey tea...Iced Tea Biscuits!

This class takes place on Sunday 9th June at the following times:

9am PT / 11am CT / 12pm ET / 5pm UK BST

Please allow up to 2 hours for this class.

This recipe was inspired by the Signature Challenge from Biscuit Week on Series 7 of The Great British Bake Off and is part of our Throwback series where we look back over some of our favourite bakes from past seasons.

Bake With A Legend Online Classes are an interactive experience, where we limit group sizes to around 25 to ensure an intimate online setting. Not only do you have your celebrity baker teaching you, but you also have one of our brilliant Bake With A Legend hosts who will ensure the smooth running of your experience ensuring everyone is enjoying themselves.

If you need any help at any point during the class, you’ll be encouraged to raise your hand and your baker will be virtually joining you in your own kitchen in no time to assist you!

You’ll bake along in tandem with Howard, learning many tips and tricks a long the way as you perfect all the skills required to make Howard's tasty biscuits. Howard will also be on hand to answer your questions, be those about baking or his experiences of being involved on such an iconic television show.

Tickets are priced at £35 for individuals and £50 for groups of two or more that will join from the same screen. Please note we can accept requests to move classes with two or more weeks notice prior to the class – any requests to do so, will incur a £5 administrative charge.

Once booked in, all guests will be emailed a full recipe and the zoom link required to join us for the class. Just in case you don’t spot it please check junk mail!

Equipment:

2 x large flat baking sheets or trays 

Baking parchment or silicone mat

Stand mixer with paddle attachment or wooden spoon & bowl  

Mixing bowls

Stand mixer with whisk attachment or electric hand mixer 

Cup-shaped cookie cutter*

Round cookie cutter (about 9cm/3½in) 

Piping bags

Rolling pin 

A few small bowls or cups

Wooden skewers or cocktail sticks/toothpicks 

Wire cooling racks

Small artist’s paintbrush (optional)

*Or you can make a cup-shaped cookie with a round cutter, trim the top and bottom of the dough to make a bowl shape, then use a bottle top, mini round cutter or piping nozzle to cut out a small circle of dough and press this against the side of the cookie to form a handle.

Ingredients:

For the biscuit/cookie dough:

200g (14tbsp) very soft unsalted butter (left out at room temperature)

2 tsp Earl Grey tea leaves** 

200g (1 cup) caster sugar

1 large egg, beaten  

400g (~3 cups) plain flour, plus extra for rolling

** or you can use lapsang souchong, matcha green tea powder or a few drops of rose extract (or use coffee powder if you’re not a tea drinker!)

For the royal icing:

1 large egg whites (at room temperature) *** 

225g (~2 cups) icing/powdered sugar

1 tsp lemon juice 

Water or extra lemon juice

Paste or gel food colourings – I use sapphire blue and navy

*** You can use pasteurised egg white if you are concerned about eating uncooked egg white

If you have any questions regarding this class or anything concerning our online classes, please email us at bookings@bakewithalegend.com.

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It is your responsibility to check the ingredients do not impact any allergies or intolerances which you may have. Bake With A Legend and our bakers take no responsibility in this regard. If you're in any doubt about you then you should contact us before booking in terms of discussing alternative ingredients to suit your requirements. We will, wherever possible provide alternatives to include gluten & dairy free options.