Makes about 18
These light, sweet biscuits are very simple to make.
Ingredients:
275g/ 10 oz butter
50g / 2 oz icing sugar
275g / 10 oz Homepride Plain Flour
Vanilla essence to taste
Paper cases
Procedure:
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/ 400°F/ Gas mark 6.
2. Place 18 paper baking cases in a sheet of patty tins or on a baking sheet.
3. Cream the butter with the icing sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Gradually add the flour with a few drops of vanilla essence, and beat well between each flour addition.
5. Put the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle. Pipe the mixture into the paper cases, starting in the middle and piping with a spiral motion round the sides.
6. Bake in the centre of preheated oven for about 15 minutes, until light golden in color.
7. Leave in their paper cases to cool on a wire rack. Sprinkle with sieved icing sugar.
Cook Notes:
Time: Preparation takes 15 minutes, baking takes 15 minutes.
Cook’s tip: If no piping bag is available, the mixture may be spooned into the cases and leveled with the back of the spoon.
Serving Ideas: as an attractive finish, after sprinkling with icing sugar, stick half a glace cherry in the centre with jam and one or more small diamonds of angelica radiating out from the cherry to represent leaves.
