Macadamia ShortbreadDegree of difficulty: Low
You need:
Dough ingredients:
3/4 cup of macadamia nuts
2/3 cup of white sugar
1/2 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract
1 cup of butter (cut into small pieces)
2 1/4 cups of plain flour
Mocha icing ingredients:
1 tablespoon of instant coffee granules
3 tablespoons of boiling water
4 tablespoons of butter (softened)
1 3/4 cups of icing sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Method:
Biscuits:
1. Put macadamia nuts and sugar in food processor and pulse until fine crumbs.
2. Add vanilla extract and butter. Pulse again until smooth.
3. Add 1 1/4 cup of the flour, pulse until incorporated and starting to form ball.
4. Take out of food processor and add the rest of the flour by hand.
5. Knead briefly into dough like consistency.
6. Roll up in cling film to form a log about 20cms long
7. Wrap well and refrigerate.
8. Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
9. Cut dough into slices (about 1/2cms thick) and push half a macadamia nut into the centre of each biscuit.
10. Space out on baking sheet and bake in centre of oven for about eight to nine minutes until just set but not too brown.
11. Cool biscuits on tray and carefully transfer to wire rack (they are fragile at this stage)
Icing:
1. Mix the coffee with the boiling water
2. Whisk in the softened butter
3. Add the icing sugar and vanilla extract.
4. Mix until smooth
5. Ice the biscuits carefully while they are cooling
From:
www.abc.net.au/southcoast/stories/s984255.htm