Empire Biscuits from Brave!

 Empire Biscuits from Brave!

Written by: Christine | August 10, 2022

Sometimes its a "someone slipped you free cookies" type of day and sometimes its a "someone tied your shoes under the table" type of day. We hope yours is the former!  These cookies are from one of our favorite scenes from Brave. We are on a Disney movie and food pairing kick and these little treats were so fun to make and share with our family. We hope you give them a try.

*the cookie base is so simple and we could see it being customized for all sorts of treats in the future!

Ingredients

1 C. of butter

1/3 C. Sugar

1 egg

½ tsp. vanilla (almond extract would be so good here too!)

3 C. flour

1 ½ C. confectioners’ sugar

1-2 TBSP. milk

15 Maraschino cherries (cut in half)

¾ C. raspberry jam

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in egg until combined. Add in extract. Slowly add in flour until a crumbly dough forms. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and cool for about an hour.

Preheat oven to 400 degree, Turn onto a floured surface and roll out quite thinly 1/8 inch- 1/4 inch. Cut rounds, scalloped rounds, mickeys (whatever use your favorite cuter and about 2 ½-3 inch in diameter). *Flour your cutter, your roller and your offset spatula. Use offset spatula to lift cookies from surface to your parchment lined baking sheet.

Bake for approx. 12 minutes. They will very slightly turn golden, not brown. Cool completely.

Use a fork to slowly add milk to the powdered sugar. Add a little at a time until you reach a spreadable icing consistency. If you add too much, add more sugar to help. You may need more or less; you’ll know when you hit the right consistency.

Use a spoon to add a smear of jam. Top each jammed cookie with another cookie and use butter knife or offset spatula to spread the icing (not too much!). Top each with half a cherry. 

 

It’s easy to see why Hamish, Hubert and Harris love these so much!  But also, easy to understand their behavior too…these are a sugar kick for sure! Enjoy with milk or tea while watching Brave!