With Easter entertaining all sewn up, why not make time to squeeze in a little light baking? We love these Spiced Easter Biscuits – golden and delicious and a great recipe for the kids to get involved in.

You will need a 7cm pastry cutter. Makes 20 biscuits:

160g Doves Farm plain flour

1/2 tsp Doves Farm baking powder

1/2 tsp Steenbergs ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp Steenbergs mixed spice

80g caster sugar

80g slightly salted Netherend butter

50g currants

1 Fenton Farm egg

25g Steenbergs vanilla sugar

Method:

• Sift flour, spices and baking powder together and rub the butter in lightly with your fingertips.
• Once at the crumb stage, stir in the sugar and currants.
• Once incorporated, add the beaten eggs and combine till you have a firm dough.
• Lightly knead the dough on a floured surface then roll it out till you have a large sheet about 3mm thickness.
• Use your pastry cutter to cut out circles of the dough and place them on greased baking sheet making sure to leave room for them to spread.
• Bake at 175 degrees for 12-13 min till baked but still light golden.
• Sprinkle with vanilla sugar whilst still slightly warm from the oven then transfer to wire rack to finish cooling.

These would make a lovely gift stacked together and tied with some ribbon.

As a fun alternative, leave out the currants and cut into Easter shapes and get the kids to decorate the cooled biscuits with coloured icing, edible baubles or what ever takes their fancy.