
Universal biscuit dough
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Easy
- Makes 1 batch
Use this recipe to make our raspberry dodgers, vanilla spirals, checkerboard and ginger biscuits. Box up your biscuits into a festive box to gift to friends
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App onlyVanilla spiral biscuits. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Make these spiral biscuits as a festive gift at Christmas for friends and family. Made with red and green food colouring, they use our universal dough recipe
- 200g unsalted buttersoftened
- 200g golden caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 400g plain flourplus extra for dusting
Method
step 1
Put the butter in a bowl and beat using electric beaters until soft and creamy. Beat in the sugar, then the egg and vanilla, and finally the flour. If the dough feels sticky, add a little more flour and knead it in. Bring together into a ball and use to make our raspberry dodgers, vanilla spirals, checkerboard and ginger biscuits.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, Christmas 2023
Comments, questions and tips (4)
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What are the cooking instructions?
samanthacroll
Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and line two large baking sheets with baking parchment. Using a very sharp knife, cut into squares and lightly brush the edges with water. Dip the edges in the demerara sugar then arrange on a baking tray. Bake for 8-10 mins until golden and set. Leave to cool on…
alicek59e4Fx2DWK
I am in the US. Do you have any recommendations for substituting for the golden caster sugar? Would it be closest to light brown sugar, or turbinado sugar, or something else?
hstanton
Just use bog standard castor sugar? Turbinado sugar is called Demerara here in UK. You can blitz it to make the crystals smaller.
BarnBarn
I used self raising floor and the visits were even better
BarnBarn
Autocorrect nonsense! flour/floor and visits/biscuits.
bem16
How long will the dough keep in the fridge and can you freeze the dough?

goodfoodteam
Hi, thanks for your question. This can be kept in the fridge, well wrapped, for two days. It can also be frozen for up to a month. We hope this helps. Best wishes, BBC Good Food Team.