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Biscuit Tray Giveaway

The seventh series of The Great British Bake Off got underway last week, and as you may remember, we decided to celebrate the return of our favourite TV show with a little competition. As it was cake week, we gave away one of our top-quality cake tins (plus a cooling rack to go with it), and this giveaway did a great job of getting people into the spirit of things on Twitter:

Bakeware Giveaway Tweets

Now, week two of the Bake Off is traditionally all about biscuits, and so this week, we're offering another great prize for budding bakers:

1 x Biscuit Baking Tray (with a non-stick finish)
1 x Small Cooling Rack

If you fancy getting your hands on these items and baking some beautiful biscuits of your own, here's what to do...

How to enter (you'll need a Twitter account!)

Follow @BakewareUK (that's us!) on Twitter.
Retweet the tweet at the top of our page.
Cross your fingers and start researching biscuit recipes - we'll announce the winner at 12 noon on Tuesday the 6th of September!

Recipes to try:

Jammy Biscuits
Shortbread Biscuits

Earl Grey Shortbread Teabags

Today we bring to you a brilliant Earl Grey Shortbread Teabags recipe from the equally brilliant Ellie's Kitchen. Ellie is very talented baker and her blog is crammed with a whole range of recipes, from hand painted sugar cookies to homemade strawberry jam, you're bound to find a recipe you love on this blog.

It would come as no surprise to you that here at British Bakeware we're huge lovers of tea, so we're extremely excited to share this recipe with you. These earl grey flavoured shortbread biscuits are really simple to bake and they take no time at all to make! They're the perfect teatime treat for tea lovers!

This fantastic recipe and image is from Ellie's Kitchen and we highly recommend you take a look at her blog if you're looking for some inspiration on your next bake!

Ingredients:

200g Unslated Butter, softened

100g Caster Sugar

300g Self Raising Flour

Drop of Vanilla Extract

Tea from 3 Earl Grey Teabags

50g Dark or Milk Chocolate

Method:

Step 1 - Preheat your oven to 160ºC

Step 2 - then cream the butter and sugar together - you can either do this by hand or if you have an electric mixer, you can use that. The mixture should look pale and smooth.

Step 3 - Once you're happy with the mixture, add the vanilla and tea.

Step 4 - Start gently working in the flour. To avoid overworking the mix, it's best to do it by hand.

Step 5 - Form the into a ball but don't worry if it doesn't together straight away, you just have to be patient.

Step 6 - Lightly flour a flat surface and roll out the dough. Make sure it's about 5mm thick.

Step 7 - Cut the dough into teabag shapes. You may want to use a template to cut around.

Step 8 - Stamp out a hole at the top of each teabag.

Step 9 - Leave to chill in the fridge the fride for 15 mins before baking until the biscuits turn golden brown. This will take around 15 minutes.

Step 10 - Leave the biscuits to cool for a few minutes on the baking tray, once the're cooked before you transfer them to a wire rack to cool fully.

Step 11 - Once cooled, dip the bottom half of each biscuit in melted chocolate and leave to set on baking paper.

Step 12 - To finish, thread string through each biscuit and add labels.

For the full the recipe, visit Ellie's blog here.

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