Michelle Darmody: Iced biscuits

Baking and icing cookies is a nice way to spend a few hours at the weekend. The smell of the sweet biscuits baking fills the kitchen, and then the tantilizing wait for them to cool begins.

If you can wait long enough the biscuits will need to be cold before you can start icing.

Certainly cookies can but cut into whichever shape takes your fancy, but I opted for some circular discs — that I then decorated with a selection of sprinkles — and hearts. There are hundreds of different shape cutters available.