Passionfruit shortbread
A perfect home made baking gift for Christmas or Valentines day. This recipe is for a basic shortbread base topped with an incredibly easy and delicious passionfruit icing.
Equipment
- cookie cutters
Ingredients
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 2 passionfruit pulp only
- salt a pinch
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
- Cream the butter and brown sugar together and mix thoroughly.
- Mix in the salt and flour gradually with a spatula until combined and a stiff dough is formed.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and gently and lightly knead for about 1 minute or until the dough starts to crack.
- Sprinkle flour on your rolling pin and then roll out the dough so that it's 1cm thick.
- Cut shapes into the dough and then place shapes on a lightly greased baking sheet. We love heart-shaped cookies and stars for the kids.
- Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes or until very lightly browned. Remove from oven and cool cookies on wire racks.
- Meanwhile, prepare the icing by mixing together the icing sugar and passionfruit pulp with a spoon. Mix thoroughly to form a paste.
- Spoon icing onto cooled cookies and then serve. The cookies are also delicious the next day once the icing has been absorbed by the cookies.
Notes
Passionfruit are in abundance over winter and this easy shortbread recipe is a divine way to use them up! The icing is delectable and just so easy! It's simply the passionfruit pulp and icing sugar. The shortbread biscuits are simple and scrumptious.
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