Decorating iced biscuits

My children absolutely love decorating iced biscuits. I don’t mind it either because it’s not as messy a process, as opposed to baking mixtures. It also allows the kids to be as creative as they like with what lollies they want to add to each biscuit.

When you’re looking for a quick and easy cooking activity to do with the kids these school holidays or you’ve got them stuck indoors, get them to decorate some iced biscuits. They really can be prepared very quickly and satisfy any sweet tooth.

Recommended age: 3 years +
(Strict and active supervision is required at all times)

Process of decorating iced biscuits

Whilst no real ‘cooking’ is involved, it’s a good idea to prepare what you need so that way your children can get to a positive overall result. You will need –

• 12 x basic sugar biscuit (we used Marie biscuits)
• 1/2 cup – icing sugar (or confectionary sugar)
• 1/4 – water (only as required)
• food colouring (optional)
• mixed lollies

Decorating iced biscuits

Begin by adding your biscuits to a plate so that they can be iced by your child. Remember, we are not looking for perfectly iced biscuits. We are looking for your child to enjoy the process and have fun. Don’t forget the hand/eye coordination skills they are building too.

Make your icing

Add a tablespoon of water to a half a cup of dry icing sugar (confectionary sugar). Make sure you’ve combined the water and icing well before adding a drop or two of food colouring.

Using the back of a spoon, children can scoop the icing and add it to each biscuit.

Children are to add lollies to the set icing to ensure they are secure.

The number of lollies is completely up to you and your child. It’s not uncommon to find they want to cover all the icing with lollies, and why not. Haha.

Decision making is an important skill and something that children can lack confidence in. The process of adding lollies to the biscuit is a great one because children make conscious decisions about what to add and where to add them.Some children aim to make fun ‘faces’, just like these fabulous biscuits by Picklebums, some children aim to group lollies on a biscuit according to colour or type. Children can go wild with their creativity.

Sweet or savoury?

Biscuits don’t have to be sweet either. Make some fun savoury biscuits using the same concept as shared above. Broken pretzel pieces, dried fruit (such as sultanas) is a great alternative.

A quick and fun alternative to preparing biscuits for a party or someone special.

How many lollies do you think you’d add to one biscuit?