Spicy fruit biscuits

Spicy Fruit Biscuits 

Serves 10–12

Ingredients :

175g/6oz butter softened

175g/6oz refined sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 egg

250g/9oz flour sifted

1 teaspoon mixed spice

1

⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon leaven

100g/4oz intermixture


• heat up the kitchen appliance to 180°C/350°F/Gas mark four. Line 2 baking trays

with baking parchment.

• employing a hand-held mixer, cream the butter and sugar along in an exceedingly little

bowl till lightweight and downlike. Add the vanilla essence and egg, and beat

until well combined. Transfer to an oversized bowl and add the sifted flour,

mixed spice, ginger and leaven.

• employing a knife, combine to a soft dough. Gather along, then divide them

mixture into 2 parts.

• Roll one distribute into a parallelogram regarding 3mm/1

⁄8in thick, and trim them

edges. Repeat with the opposite dough portion. Chill each till simply firm.

• unfold every dough parallelogram with intermixture, then roll up sort of a Swiss

roll. Cut the rolls into slices regarding 1cm/1

⁄2in thick. placed on the ready

trays, feat house between every slice.

• Bake within the kitchen appliance for 10–15 minutes till golden. Cool on the trays for

3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to chill utterly.