T is for Tiny Biscuits

Tiny things always seem to be a hit with children.  Tiny pet toys, tiny lego pieces, tiny fairies and tiny dolls are popular in our household.

Bee and Bear also love the small packets of even smaller biscuits for a snack.

And while they are cute and convenient, the biscuits do work out to be quite expensive when packaged like this. Besides, with only a few biscuits in each packet they don't last very long.

I knew I needed to find a homemade version that I could package up myself to include in the girls' kindy lunchboxes.

Amanda from One Crafty Mum has this recipe for Homemade Tiny Teddy Biscuits on her blog and that is what we used for our tiny biscuits. We don't have a thermomix which is what Amanda used to make this recipe.  She does suggest that the recipe would work with a mixer or a bowl and spoon so we used our stand mixer.

We added 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder in with the flour to make tiny chocolate biscuits.  And because I am impatient I didn't bother putting the dough in the fridge for an hour.  The weather was reasonably cool the day we made these and the biscuits turned out fine.  But if I was to make them in summer I would definitely rest the dough in the fridge for a while.

To make the dough for the Tiny Biscuits, I creamed the butter and sugar.  Then I mixed in the egg,  vanilla, flour and baking powder.

Once it was all mixed well, we turned the dough out onto the lightly floured bench, rolled it out and starting cutting out our shapes.  We don't have a tiny teddy shaped biscuit cutter so I searched through the girls playdough cutter collection and came up with small bear, small elephant, small duck and small dog shapes.  After a good wash in hot, soapy water the cutters were ready to use.  If you want to buy a tiny teddy cutter Amanda has links in her post.