Tag: Biscuits
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Cherries and berries biscotti
Made for a ‘Wear it pink’ charity bake, these unusually-flavoured biscotti went down a treat. They have dried cranberries, glace cherries, dried strawberries and are flavoured and coloured with blackberry powder
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Macadamia and pecan biscuits
Fancy a change from chocolate chip cookies? Then go nuts with the macademias and pecans in these delicious biscuits.
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Galettes Nantaises
These are shortbread-style biscuits originating from Nantes in France. They differ from typical shortbreads in that they have ground almonds, salt and a wash of egg yolks.
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Vanilla shortbreads
My bestest ever recipe for shortbread (not strictly adhering to tradition) which gives beautiful biscuits every time.
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Strawberry and cream Souvaroffs – the original jammie dodgers
These petit four sablés have been adapted from a very old French recipe I found (late 1800s). Although it was a French recipe, these biscuits had an intriguing Russian name and I tried to research where they came from or who they were named after. I discovered one or two French websites that claimed the […]
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Chocolate frangipane, shortbread and nut swirls
These biscuits are based on a method for biscotti eureka, but I have radically altered the recipe – it bears little resemblance to the original now other than the construction method and that it requires a shortbread-type biscuit and a frangipane-type filling. I have baked biscotti eureka a few times, and I find them delicious […]
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Bourbon cream sandwich biscuits
I have a bit of a thing with cooking in that I love ‘reverse engineering’ recipes. That is, I love guessing the recipe and taking time to get it to as an exact replica as I can. It’s not just with baking but with all cooking, for instance trying to work out what’s gone into […]
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Coconut biscuits with hazelnuts or cherries
What to do when you’ve not got quite enough plain flour in the cupboard, need to make biscuits and can’t be arsed to walk to the shop? Use up what you’ve got in the cupboard and improvise! These are based on a staple biscuit mix I wrote up many years ago, which I use as […]
Ink Sugar Spice ~ Lynn Clark 