There seems to be 2 types of biscuits/cookies that go under this name. These are the Australian version, old-fashioned meltingly soft buttery shortbreads sandwiched together with a butter icing. This recipe came from Super Food Ideas, and it is perfect.
Provided by catxx
Categories Dessert
Time 30m
Yield 20 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 160 deg Celsius Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
- Beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and vanilla essence with an electric mixer until pale and creamy.
- Sift together flour and cornflour, and add to the butter mixture.
- Mix together gently with a wooden spoon, and then with your hands.
- Use lightly floured hands to roll mix into walnut-sized balls.
- Put on trays about 5cm apart, and flatten with a lightly floured fork to about 1cm thick.
- Bake for about 15 minutes, swapping trays in oven halfway through (ie. at 7 minutes), until cooked through.
- Cool on baking trays.
- Filling: Use an electric mixer to beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and cocoa together until well-combined.
- Sandwich cooled biscuits together with the filling then lightly dust with icing sugar.
- Vary the filling flavour by substituting the cocoa with one of the following:.
- grated rind of 1 orange.
- grated rind of 1 lemon.
- 1 tbsp of passionfruit pulp.
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