No 43 - Cherry Almond Biscuits
Mothering Sunday - while my other half was entertaining 'sa mere et sa soeur' following his magnificent roast pork 'lunch', I took my turn at doing the dishes and turned the kitchen to my own use to bake something a little bit special for a meeting at work tomorrow morning. I needed to hunt out a biscuit recipe that I hadn't made before (for my personal challenge), and I've found this which fits perfectly with my current obsession for recipes with ground almonds.
And this one is really easy.
Cherry Almond Biscuits
200 g butter
90g caster sugar
1/2 tsp almond extract
25g ground almonds
200g self-raising flour
glace cherries
Melt the butter, stir in sugar and essence, sift in the flour and add the ground almonds. Mix the lot to a smooth dough,
then roll teaspoonfuls into balls and space them out on baking sheets (aim for 25-30). Stick half cherry on top of each, flattening the ball slightly.
Bake 15-20 minutes at 160 degrees C (fan oven)/180 degrees C (conventional). Leave them 5 minutes on the trays before transferring them to a wire rack. They are very buttery and will crumble if you move them too soon.
And this one is really easy.
200 g butter
90g caster sugar
1/2 tsp almond extract
25g ground almonds
200g self-raising flour
glace cherries
Melt the butter, stir in sugar and essence, sift in the flour and add the ground almonds. Mix the lot to a smooth dough,then roll teaspoonfuls into balls and space them out on baking sheets (aim for 25-30). Stick half cherry on top of each, flattening the ball slightly.
Bake 15-20 minutes at 160 degrees C (fan oven)/180 degrees C (conventional). Leave them 5 minutes on the trays before transferring them to a wire rack. They are very buttery and will crumble if you move them too soon.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteOOOOOHHHH, childhood memories. Mum made these (or certainly something very similar) quite often as dad was obsessed with these flavours. Scrumptious!!! YAM xx
I don't think those would last long in my house.
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