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Ginger creams recipe
- Cuisine: Modern Australian
- Makes 10 sandwiched biscuits
These lovely, short biscuits have just enough spice to add some sparkle to your day. The white pepper in the icing – strange as it sounds – brings out a more robust gingery flavour.
Ingredients
200g salted butter, softened55g (¼ cup) brown sugar, sifted
¾ tsp ground ginger
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
200g (1⅓ cups) plain flour
50g (⅓ cup) cornflour
Ginger icing
50g salted butter, softened
100g icing sugar, sifted
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground white pepper
1 tsp lemon juice
Preparation
Preheat oven to 180°C. Using an electric mixer, beat butter, brown sugar, ginger and nutmeg until pale and fluffy. Sift in the flours and stir with a wooden spoon until just combined. Roll large teaspoonfuls of the mixture into 20 even-sized balls.Place the biscuits on a lined baking tray about 4cm apart. Using two fingers, flatten them to a little less than 1cm high. Bake in the centre of the oven, turning halfway, for 15 minutes or until they start to brown on the bottom and just begin to colour on top. Cool on the tray until firm, then transfer biscuits to a wire rack.
Meanwhile, to make ginger icing, beat the butter with the icing sugar for 2 minutes or until pale and fluffy. Beat in the ginger, ground white pepper and lemon juice until well combined. Top half the biscuits with 2 tsp of icing and sandwich with the other halves while the icing is still soft. Store the biscuits in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Alternatively, freeze un-iced biscuits in an airtight container arranged in single layers separated by baking paper for up to 1 month.
As seen in Feast magazine, Issue 8, pg42.
Photography by Alan Benson.
If you enjoyed this Ginger creams recipe then browse more Modern Australian recipes, dessert recipes, baking recipes, egg-free recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.
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