needs more sugar

When I was a kid, I hated these. I hated the way the biscuit was buttery, how it tasted of lemon, how it crumbled to bits when you bit into it – and where the hell were all the choc chips!

All the things that bothered me as a coco-pop & red cordial loving child are the things I now love about these biscuits. A hint of lemon smoothed over by the butteriness of the crumbly biscuit base, a passionfruit kick in the fluffy buttercream filling.

Perfect with a hot lady grey tea.

Ingredients:

(Makes 25 – I got about 15 as I made them a little larger)

Biscuit:

125g butter, softened
3/4 cup (115g) plain flour
1/4 cup (45g) pure icing sugar
1/3 cup (50g) cornflour
1 tsp finely grated lemon rind

Passionfruit filling:

60g butter, softened
1 cup (150g) pure icing sugar
1 passionfruit
2 tsp lemon juice

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 160°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper.
2. Use an electric mixer to beat butter until pale and creamy.
3. Add flour, icing sugar, cornflour and lemon rind; stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.
4. Hand-roll teaspoonfuls of mixture into balls.Place on lined tray, about 3cm apart.
5. Use a fork dusted with cornflour to gently flatten to 2cm diameter.
6. Bake for 15 minutes or until lightly golden and cooked through. Set aside on the tray to cool
7. To make the filling, use an electric mixer to beat the butter until pale and creamy.
8. Add the icing sugar, passionfruit pulp and lemon juice and beat until well combined.
9. Place filling in a small piping bag fitted with a fluted nozzle. Pipe a little filling onto the underside of a biscuit. Sandwich with a second biscuit.
10. Repeat with remaining biscuits and filling.

Franklin - official biscuit inspector since 2009.

Crumbs..

• Using a piping bag in step 7 isn’t necessary – I just used a small palette knife and it was perfectly fine.
• I think a raspberry buttercream would be a winner too. I might try that next time instead of the passionfruit.

Recipe from the October 2009 issue of Notebook: magazine.

Tags: lemon, passionfruit

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