During my Summer cleaning rounds, I re-discovered a giant container filled with cookie cutters that I hadn't used. I have a feeling my husband purchased them from Aldi many years ago because they looked great. And they do! So I put them in a basket and whipped up a batch of simple shortbread.
A rather large assortment of cookie cutters
The trouble is choosing which cutters to use
Rolling out the shortbread
More rolling. Easier to roll if you put the dough between layers of baking paper, as it is a really soft dough.
Baked! They smelled delicious. I think half the dough got eaten raw!
Decorated with passionfruit icing. Phil came home and devoured the teddy bears :D
The recipe is:-
250 grams butter
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 cups plain flour
- Beat butter, vanilla essence and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Stir in sifted flour, mix to a soft dough.
- Roll out, cut out shapes etc. Bake biscuits in moderate oven for about 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on trays
- Decorate with passionfruit icing
My recipe for passionfruit icing is really easy. Just passionfruit pulp with icing sugar. Throw the pulp in the mix master and keep adding icing sugar until it looks like stiff egg whites. Then it won't drip off the biscuits. Use it up quickly because it will set.
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