July 6th, 2010

Belgian Biscuits Newstalk ZB Recipe

This is the recipe (with my metric adjustments) as heard on Newstalk ZB Thursday 1st July.

4 oz butter (softened) 115g

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1 large cup (1 1/4 cups) plain flour

1 sm cup (3/4 cup) cornflour

1 tsp Baking Powder

2 desspn (1 1/2 Tablespoons each of cinnamon and cocoa

Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat again. Sift in dry ingredients and combine. If it is too soft (though mine wasn’t) chill for an hour or so until it can be rolled out to 1/8th inch thickness (dont ask me for the metric version of that!) Cut into rounds with a cutter or glass and bake on a tray lined with baking paper at about 160 fan or 180 non-fan for 12-15 mins or until nearly firm and smelling good.Cool slightly and sandwich together with raspberry or plum jam (if you are like me and hate raspberry seeds in your teeth!) Ice with a simple lemon icing if desired but they are quite sweet so be warned.Makes about a dozen or more  joined biscuits depending on size.They will soften on standing so keep them unjoined until you want them, if you like crisper biscuits!Your call.

Sue Story

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