Little Steps Care · Autumn workshop

Bake a tin of autumn leaf biscuits

Weigh the ingredients and make leaf-shaped biscuits. A toddler can help cut out the shapes.

  • 2–4 · 4–6 · 6–8 · 8–12 years
  • About 80 minutes
  • Baking
  • Maths & patterns

What will your child practise?

Weigh ingredients, compare shapes and draw veins in a biscuit.

What you need

For one tray of small biscuits: 100 g plain flour, 50 g white soft sugar, 75 g cold butter and half a beaten egg yolk. You also need baking paper, a rolling pin, a leaf cutter or glass, and a fork. Contains wheat, milk and egg.

Watch the video · Making butter biscuits (Allerhande · YouTube)

Step by step

  1. Weigh the flour, sugar and butter. An adult cubes the butter. Knead everything with the half egg yolk to make a dough. Wrap and chill for 30 minutes. Taste only after baking.
  2. Preheat the oven to 175 °C. Dust the surface with flour and roll the dough to 3–4 mm thick. Let a toddler cut shapes. An older child can press leaf veins into the dough with a fork.
  3. Space the biscuits on baking paper. An adult bakes them for 15–20 minutes until the edges turn light brown and leaves them on a rack to cool.