Any recipes for iced animal biscuits?

I am just wanting to make some iced animal biscuits like the ones that Arnotts make. Does anyone have a good recipe? Thanks

no, but yum- weren't they great biscuits!

Ohhh I loved them when I was a kid! I still remember when they changed the recipe - even as a kid I could taste the difference - well I suppose kids were the experts with them aye! Can you still get them? I used to bit the heads off first. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Just had a look and there are a few online, and arnotts still make them yay!

If you could /can get the animal shape cutters, either a malt biscuit recipe but cut the malt Use honey or likes even maple syrup and a real firm icing mix. Or Belgium biscuit recipe and cut spice out or down. We only ate them for the icing :)

r_woodie, I haven't actually made these cookies myself but I have posted the recipe on this MB several times and always received very positive feedback so maybe it will help you too.

VANILLA SUGAR COOKIES FOR DECORATING
From Laurel Watson as shown on TV 1's “Good Morning” many years ago
"The following recipe is the best decorating base I have found as it is tender to eat but still keeps its shape after baking" Laurel.

185g butter
1 cup caster sugar
1½ tsp vanilla essence
2½ cups plain flour
1 egg

Place butter and sugar in the food processor and whiz until combined. Add the egg and vanilla essence and whiz again to mix, add the flour and pulse until the dough comes together in a ball. Knead the dough lightly then press into a dish, wrap in plastic film and chill for at least 30 minutes. Roll out on a floured workbench to about ½ cm, cut out with a cookie cutter that has been dipped in flour (the dough can be re-rolled once). Put the shapes on a baking sheet lined with non stick baking paper.
Bake at 180°C for 10-12 minutes until just golden, cool on a rack and then decorate.
Variations:
• chocolate cookies substitute ¼ cup cocoa powder for ¼ cup flour.
• Stained Glass Biscuits:- Simply cut out a shape from a larger-size biscuit and drop a Heard’s fruit lolly into the hole, bake as per usual and let cool on the baking paper.

Hope that helps. :-))

I had some animal biscuits about 3 months ago - always were a favorite childhood biccie. They taste so different. no where near as good as I remember