Marmalade Biscuits | Disney's Treasure Planet
Deliciously buttery and sweet marmalade biscuits shaped like loveable character Morph, celebrating Disney's Treasure Planet.
Ingredients
Marmalade biscuits dough:
- 250 g [8.75 oz] unsalted butter very soft but not melted
- 50 g [¼ cup + 1 tbsp] icing [confectioners] sugar
- 225 g [1¼ cups + 2 tbsp] plain [all-purpose] flour
- 25 g [3 tbsp + 1 tsp] cornflour
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- Rose pink food colouring
Filling:
- 100 g [3.5 oz] unsalted butter softened
- 200 g [1¼ cups + 2 tbsp] icing [confectioners] sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- Yellow or gold food colouring
- Orange marmalade or preferred option i.e. orange and passionfruit curd or lemon curd
Decoration:
- Black liquid food colouring or food paint oil based
- White liquid food colouring or food paint oil based
- Pink liquid food colouring or food paint oil based
Instructions
Marmalade biscuits:
- Preheat your oven to 190°C [370°F] or 170°C fan.
- Using a 4 cm cutter and a pencil, trace 8 circles on a sheet of baking paper/greaseproof paper. Leave a decent amount of space between each circle. Repeat this with 2 more sheets of baking paper/greaseproof paper. Flip the sheets so that the pencil faces down and line 3 baking trays with them. Set aside.
- Soften the butter now if needed - no more than 20 seconds in the microwave.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
- Sieve in the flour and cornflour and beat in until a soft dough has formed.
- Add in the pink food colouring and beat in until an even colour is achieved. You can add more when necessary.
- Fill a sandwich bag or piping bag with the end snipped off with the pink biscuit dough. The hole needs to be around the width of a Sharpie marker pen.
- Pipe the dough in rough swirled circles on the baking sheets, using the pencil markings underneath as a guide.
- Pipe a couple of blobs for the head and for Morph’s extra floating parts around the edges of the biscuits.
- Bake the biscuits on the middle shelves of your oven for 12 - 15 minutes until the pink is a little darker and the surface of the biscuits are dry to touch.
- Leave the biscuits to cool on the trays for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Filling:
- While your biscuits are cooling (this won’t take long), make the buttercream.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the yellow or gold food colouring to colour it slightly.
- When your biscuits are completely cool, spread a thin layer of marmalade (or preferred option) over 12 of the biscuits. Choose your favourite biscuits for the tops and the rest for the bases! Spread the marmalade on the base biscuits.
- Spoon the buttercream into a piping bag or sandwich bag with a closed star piping tip attached.
- Pipe swirls of buttercream on top of the marmalade on your base biscuits. Pipe little stars in the blob parts of the biscuits.
Decoration:
- Place your favourite biscuits on the top of the decorated biscuits to create sandwiched marmalade biscuits.
- Using a couple of thin paint brushes and the black, white and pink liquid food colourings/paints, paint on Morph’s eyes and mouth in various expressions if desired. Otherwise, just stick to his adorable little smile.
- Make sure to paint the shine in his pupils!
Notes
These melt-in-your-mouth buttery and sweet marmalade biscuits are just the ticket for a Treasure Planet viewing session. They are best eaten on the day but will last around 3+ more days. As with most biscuits, they may soften further over time but will still remain delicious. Enjoy!