Royal Wedding Fever: Union Jack Biscuits

I’ve spent most of the day baking for our Royal Wedding Party tomorrow. A friend and I are following the recipes from a Coronation Street Party (that is a Street Party held in 1953 to celebrate the Coronation, rather than a party in an engaging British Soap Opera) which I will be hosting. I have asked that everyone wears a hat in honour of the occasion, and because this is my main memory of the first Royal Wedding I remember:

Flashback Friday: Cyprus, 1981

I’m grateful to our local Poundland for supplying the Darias [tiaras, according to PD] for The Girls, and a local Charity shop, which supplied DH’s straw boater and the red, white and blue tie that is wrapped around it, because I am utterly exhausted and don’t have the energy to sew rosettes to the hats I was actually planning on. I have been working on my icing skills by whipping up some Union Jack biscuits.

Piping the outlines

Flooding with blue

Flooding with red

Piping details on top

And what would a Royal Wedding be without a Crown or two?

Whatever you are doing, I hope you enjoy your Royal Wedding long weekend. I shall be doing my best to acquire a new stash of Champagne Corks for the next event in the calendar. I might keep Will and Kate on the mantelpiece.

Laura Ingalls Gunn

April 28, 2011 at 11:24 pm

Love love and love!!!!

Grace

April 28, 2011 at 11:42 pm

I love the photo of you all in your festive hats celebrating Charles and Diana’s wedding. You have totally outdone yourself with the Union Jack cookies – they look too pretty to eat.

cass@frugalfamily

April 29, 2011 at 8:35 am

They look fab – I doubt ours would come out looking that good though

Emma

April 29, 2011 at 3:28 pm

Those biscuits look fab!!! Mmm..

April 29, 2011 at 5:54 pm

Wow those biscuits are fabulous! Popping over from Blow your own bloghorn! Emma

Jenny Paulin

April 30, 2011 at 4:02 pm

Wow! The biscuits look amazing! The ohotomfrom 1981 is liovely – that’s the royal wedding i remember too. Well aswell as yesterday’s now of course!

Sarah

May 1, 2011 at 9:11 am

Those biscuits are incredible!!! A work of art! I reckon they would sell like hot cakes in the tourist spots! Amazing work – & loving the crowns too! Super clever!