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Simple Coffee-Time Biccies



Simple Coffee-Time Biccies

Home lock-down has got my family going slightly stir crazy! I'm loving the extra baking and cooking time, locking myself in the kitchen whenever I can and have found some great recipes online and in the newspaper (BBC Good Food is always a favourite; there's some great pages to follow on insta too for inspiration and recipes and the telegraph food and drink section is getting bigger every day!!)

While insanity is starting to hit - we're trying to keep a routine/pattern and coffee time is now a major feature! It's the really needed morning pick-me-up a chance to break from revision, gather for a chat and of course eat biscuits!! Knowing how much my family love biscuits, we go through quite a few so I found this simple recipe online and have been loving making them on a regular basis.

As you can see, the measures are a bit odd - I halved the recipe and found it made plenty of perfectly sized coffee time biccies!

The Recipe below is for lemon biscuits - yum! - but I've also made orange and cranberry and a ginger spiced variety - chopping up really tiny bits of glaced cherries and crystallised ginger added great texture!


Lemon biscuits 87.5g - butter 125g - plain flour 50g - icing sugar 1 tsp - lemon juice 1/2 - egg 1. Whizz butter, flour and pinch of salt to breadcrumbs 2. Add sugar and lemon zest - whizz again 3. Add lemon juice and egg until clumps of dough form 4. Keep blending until larger balls form 5. Tip out and knead trying not to overwork the dough 7. Roll into a ball and chill for 15 mins 8. Roll out on a floured surface and cut (into discs) 9. Place on lined baking tray and chill for further 15 mins 10. Heat oven and bake for about 7 minutes (or until slightly golden around the edges - they will harden to give the perfect bite when cooling)







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