These cheese star biscuits are very easy to make and delicious. They are perfect for children’s parties but grown ups love them too!
I’ve been making these little cheesy biscuits since my eldest son’s first Birthday – he turns 15 next month! How the heck did that happen – I feel like I’ve skipped a few years somewhere along the way.
This is the first in a series of “quick bakes” I’ll be sharing with you over the next couple of months.
How to make cheese star biscuits
The dough for these biscuits is child’s play to work with – you simply pop all the ingredients in a food processor.
If you don’t have a food processor, you can of course do it by hand – it just takes a bit longer for the dough to come together. It helps if your butter is nice and soft.
When it comes to rolling out, the dough is very forgiving. It doesn’t seem to mind being roughly handled and re-rolled.
No matter how many times I squige the cut offs back together and re-roll, the biscuits always turn out perfect – cheesy, crisp, melt in your mouth and delicious!
Want to see more biscuit and cookie recipes? Check these out…
Stilton and Walnut Star Biscuits (the grown up version of this recipe!)
Easy Iced Gingerbread Biscuits
Double Chocolate Malteser Cookies
white chocolate and cranberry cookies
white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies
spooky spider Halloween cookies
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Cheese Star Biscuits
These cheese star biscuits are crisp, light and melt in your mouth! A wonderful easy recipe from Nigella Lawson.
Ingredients
- 50 g self raising flour
- 25 g soft butter
- 80 g finely grated mature cheddar cheese
- 20 g finely grated Parmesan
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika, optional
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 200C/fan 180C.
- Grease and line a couple of baking trays.
- Simply mix together all the ingredients together in a bowl or place in a food processor and process until the dough comes together.
- Dust a work surface with flour, then roll out the orange dough and cut out your shapes.
- Place on the baking trays and bake for 8-10 minutes or until puffy and golden. Remove from the oven and transfer the biscuits to a wire rack to cool.
Notes
Obviously the amount of biscuits you will end up with will depend on the size of cutter you use. I used a small 3cm star cutter and got about 40 biscuits.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 40 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 19Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 41mgCarbohydrates: 1gFiber: 0gSugar: 0gProtein: 1g
Calories and Nutrition have been calculated by Nutritionix and is intended as a rough guide only.
i would love to have an option to quickly convert to the metric system, cups and ounces and things like that. Also nutritional information! Thanks
Hi Bobbi, I use Google for converting recipes – but I am planning to add cup measurements to my recipes in the near future. It might take a little while though! ? I’m afraid I don’t feel qualified to give advice on nutritional information. Thanks!
Oooh I do love a quick cheese biscuit recipe & this one looks lovely! Would be easy to make Peachick safe with dairyfree cheese & parmesan too!
OOh looking forward to seeing more in your ‘Quick Bakes’ series. These definitely look moreish. Can’t beat a forgiving dough that you can just keep reforming and making more. Thanks so much for sharing with #BakeoftheWeek
Thanks Helen! See you next week #BakeoftheWeek
Yes you definitely could! Thank you ?
these are very similar to some cheesy biscuits that my mum makes us at Christmas. your stars are so neat and cute.
thank you for linking to #Bakeoftheweek x
Thank you so much! x
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just made these – fab! Will make them with my Grandson soon. Thank you
I’m glad you liked them! 🙂