B is for Best Ever Birthday Recipes

As I mentioned in my previous post, Bear and Bee have a birthday in November so I decided we would try out some recipes from the Best Ever Birthday book.  Bear picked the Raspberry Jellies and Bee wanted to try the Rainbow Star biscuits.

Raspberry Jellies

The Raspberry jellies are very simple.  Make up the raspberry flavoured jelly according to the directions on the packet.  Place a few fresh raspberries in the bottom of each plastic cup or small bowl and top with the jelly liquid.  Place in the fridge to set for 3-4 hours.  Top each jelly cup with a spoonful of whipped cream and some more raspberries.  Ours however did not have berries or cream, as Bear decided against this at the last minute.

Count (and recount) the plastic cups and get the utensils ready.

Pour the jelly crystals into a bowl.

Add in the cold water (I had already added the hot water)

Mix well.

I poured the jelly into two small jugs so Bee and Bear could fill the cups themselves.

Rainbow Star Biscuits

For the Rainbow star biscuits we made biscuit dough by beating 100g softened butter with ½ cup icing sugar until pale and fluffy.  Then we added 1 egg and mixed until well combined.  We then folded in 1 ½ cups of plain flour until a smooth dough formed.  The dough was then shaped into a disc, wrapped in plastic wrap and placed in the fridge for 1 hour.

Once the dough was firm enough, it was rolled out on the floured bench and we used star cutters and circle cutters to make the shapes.  The original recipe used two different sized star cutters but my star cutters are all the same size. 

We cut star shapes out of the dough and put these onto the trays lined with baking paper.  Then we used a circle cutter to cut out circle from the centre of each star.  The cut out circles were placed on the trays too.

Then we put 1 sugar free fruit drop in the centre of each star and a Smartie on each circle.  The biscuits were baked at 180^oC for about 8 minutes or until golden.  You will need to leave them on the tray to cool to make sure the lolly centres are set.  I think they look really cool don’t you?

Here’s a great post from Nicole at Planning with Kids on an old school party favourite – Honey Joys.  What is your go to party food?