I am so delighted with these cute cookies. I was at the hairdressers on Saturday and in one of the magazines was this recipe for decorated hazelnut shortbread biscuits. I don’t normally ever rip out pages of magazines that I don’t own, but I did on Saturday!!! I slyly ripped out the page and put it in my handbag!!! I was slightly shocked at myself, but I really needed the visual to see what the biscuits looked like!
The mixture called for ground hazelnuts. I was planning on grinding my own, but I remembered that I had some ground macadamia nuts in the cupboard, so I decided to substitute those. The cookies in the magazine were all beautifully decorated in a mixture of white and dark chocolate. To make things simple for myself, I dipped all of mine in white chocolate and then decorated them with these really cute icing santa clauses that I bought at the Albany farmers market, and some Christmas sprinkles I got from the supermarket. I am so pleased with them! They look lovely and festive and also taste yummy! They cooked to a nice consistency and kept their shape well! What more could I want!!!
Over the weekend I will be making the last minute wee treats to give on Christmas day. The other things I plan on making are some savoury biscuits, some spice biscuits and some fruit mince chocolate truffles. I am making a gift basket for my mother in law for Christmas, so I want to fill it with things that she will like. That might be my first post for next year as on Monday I am off on holiday for 3 weeks!! Yay!!!
Hazelnut shortbread
125g butter
¼ c icing sugar
1 tbsp rice flour
1 c flour
1 tsp mixed spice
2 tbsp ground hazelnuts
· Cream butter and icing sugar, then mix in dry ingredients
· Roll out and cut into shapes
· Bake at 150 deg for about 15-20 minutes
Decorate with melted chocolate
3 comments:
Hi Tammy,
I just wanted to say that I have been following your blog for the past few weeks after getting your link from Food Lovers Forum. I have been enjoying checking out what you have been making. I am impressed that you work and then have time for such delightful creations. I have a passion for baking too. I have made lots of cream based truffles, chocolate Apricot pistachio slice and christmas cake here! Merry Christmas, enjoy your break!
What great cookies!! Something to really put you in a festive mood!
These look gorgeous Tammy! I have often been tempted to tear out the recipes too. There is a great cafe near work that has food magazines to read, and I have often eaten my lunch while furiously scribbling down recipes on the back of bills, printed emails, advertisements and anything else that I can find in my handbag!
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