I have wanted to make the biscuits in this post for quite a while, but I kept forgetting to buy the toffees or I'd find something else to make and forget all about them! However, this week I finally got round to making them, and I am very glad I did! The biscuit is so lightly spiced and crumbly it is truly divine, and the toffee brings just the right amount of sweetness because it doesn't overpower the other flavours. They go perfectly with my favoured tea of the moment, Chai - I can't stop drinking the stuff! It will definitely be featuring on the Delicious Decadence drinks menu when we finally open - fingers crossed, in fact everything crossed, it will be soon now because we only have a couple of things left to tie up!
Anyway, enjoy the post!
The Ingredients
8oz Butter, 5oz caster sugar, an egg, 1tsp vanilla extract, 10oz plain flour, pinch of salt, 1/2 tsp ground mixed spice, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, and toffees.
Firstly, cream together the butter and sugar until pale and smooth.
Next, separate the egg, and add just the egg yolk (you don't need the white) and the vanilla extract.
Then add the flour, ground mixed spice, ground cinnamon, and a pinch of salt.
Stir everything together until you have a smooth and fairly pliable dough, and then drop spoonfuls of it onto a lined baking tray. Use your fingers to round the drops and flatten them down a bit. Make sure the amounts are well spaced out because they spread when they bake.
For the toffee part, you need individually wrapped round toffee sweets - one for each cookie.
After 6 minutes in the oven (190), remove the cookies, and place a toffee in the middle of each one.
Put the cookies back in the oven for another 8-10 minutes and then remove, at which point the cookies will be a beautiful golden brown and the toffee in the middle will have started to melt slightly.
And there you have it. The cookies have a beautiful flavour and I think you could just make them as a plain biscuit without the toffee if you fancied it! The toffee remains chewy in the centre and compliments the biscuit well. Well worth a try I think!
Kate
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