Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Christmas Window Biscuits





Christmas Window Biscuits

Makes :30 biscuits standard size

 

INGREDIENTS

• 210 g Golden Cloud Cake Flour

• 2 ml salt

• 125 g butter

• 50 g castor sugar

• 5 ml caramel essence

• 15 ml milk

• 110 g hard candy in assorted colours, crushed

 

INSTRUCTION

1. Preheat oven to 180 °C.

2. Sift the flour and salt together. Set aside.

3. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add essence and mix through. Add the Golden Cloud Cake Flour with the milk to the creamed mixture and mix into a stiff dough.

4. Roll out onto a lightly floured surface until 4 mm thick. Cut with shaped cookie cutters into desired shapes. If hanging from a tree, cut a hole on the top of each biscuit using a straw. To create windows, use smaller cookie cutters and cut shapes out of biscuits.

5. Place on a baking tray lined with foil. Grease with melted butter. Spoon amounts of same coloured candy into each window.

6. Bake for 10 – 15 minutes or until biscuits are golden in colour and candy has melted. 7. Allow to cool completely before lifting off the baking tray.