Preparation: 1 hour | Baking: 15-20 minutes |
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200 g plain flour
50 g icing sugar
a pinch of sat
25 g ground almonds
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Place the flour, icing sugar, salt and ground almonds in the a glass bow, combine the ingredients.
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170 g unslated butter, cut into the cubes
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Add unslated butter and rub it between the fingertips to combine the butter, flour, almonds and salt to get the mixture that resembles bread crumbs.
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1 small egg, lightly beaten
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Add the egg and gather all ingredients together to form a ball. Transfer the pastry on the worktop and knead to get homogenous pastry. Make the disc, cover with cling film and keep refrigerated for 30 minutes.
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Preheat the oven to 180ºC/Gas 5, line baking trays with baking paper.
Take the pastry out from the fridge and remove cling film. Dust the worktop with the flour and roll out the pastry to the thickness of 3 mm. Cut out discs with the pastry cutter of 7 cm in diameter. Re-rolled any off cuts and repeat. You should get about 40 discs. Cut out a star shape in each of 20 discs. Transfer them on the baking trays and bake about 15 minutes until golden brown.
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1 tbsp of icing sugar
A small jar (150 g) jam of your choice
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Sprinkle the icing sugar on the discs with a star. Spread a layer of jam on each full disc and heap a dollop of jam in the middle of each. Cover with the star disc, press gently to push the jam through the star hole. You can add a little of the jam to fill the star hole. Serve with a cup of tea. You will get 20 Christmas Almond Shortbread Biscuits.
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My son has a nut allergy and I cannot use almond flour. Can I use just all-purpose flour? If so, please advise how much. Thank you!
Hi Elisa, many thanks, yes, you can use only plain flour and the biscuits will be great.
They melt in the mouth! I got tons of compliments from my family. In fact they were hinting for me to make them again, so I did! They are great with a cuppa.
This recipe made very delicious biscuits. The only thing I will change for next time is reducing my jam before putting it onto the cookies.