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« on: March 01, 2010, 03:01:53 am »
Burnt Butter Biscuits
I got this from Julie on the Today show the other week. Its a really quick and easy biscuit recipe and you could add whatever you like to it, sultanas, choc chips, jam, etc.
Ingredients
125g butter
1/2 cup sugar - 110g
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup SR Flour or Plain Flour and 1 tsp baking powder - 220g
Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
Place butter into TM bowl and melt at varoma temp speed 1 for 20 mins, you want the butter to go a golden brown colour. Let it cool for 5 or 10 mins.
Add sugar and egg, at this point I also used the butterfly to whisk up the egg. Mix it for approx 5 sec at speed 4.
Add the vanilla and flour and mix til combined and nice and shiny, about 5 sec.
Use about 1 tsp of mixture and roll little balls of dough and bake in oven til golden brown which took about 5-7 mins in my oven.
Very quick and easy and next time I make themIi will be using my home made apricot jam to make jam drops!
members' comments
JD - What a great little recipe this one is, thanks a lot em for posting it. How many biscuits did you get? Mine were obviously bigger than yours as I had to bake them 10 minutes then left them on the tray to cool and crisp up - it made 34 cookies. I did a mixture of jam drops, then topped some with flaked almonds and then mixed some chocolate chips into the last of the mixture - 3 different cookies from 1 batch. Looks like I've been to the Cookie Man shop.
em - JD I think I made about 30, they could have been smaller. mmm sounds good, I will try the jam drops next I think.
willmac - they are soooooo good and half of them have already been eaten.
Amanda - they are lovely, but I had the devil of a time getting the butter to burn. I cooked it in the TM, eventually on Varoma temp, for 9 minutes, finally pouring the whole lot out into a saucepan and burning it on the stove before proceeding with the recipe.
faffa70 - they are a hit with the family - yay another one for the bikkie barrel and the recipe into the keeper file. I also had a hard time getting the butter to brown. I ended cooking it on varoma temp for 10 minutes. It wasn't burnt as such but was a nice golden brown by then. I can handle the 10 minutes when I don't have to stand there and stir it and watch it like a hawk - I can do a lot else in 10 minutes lol.
em - I ended up doing the same thing faffa the second time I made these and just got it nice and golden brown, I guess it's a little hard to burn things in the tmx!!
mrsmac - I love this recipe, made them while the kids were asleep and would've got 34 if they didn't wake up at the end of me putting them on the trays, I did half and half with apricot jam and choc chips kids loved the uncooked mix, and already dd2 has given the thumbs up for the choc chip ones.
CP - I dug out my recipe from "Country Classics" which I have always doubled. I wonder if there is any difference in the browning of the butter depending on brands/quality?
This is the quantities used:
250g butter
250g sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
310g SR Flour
Melted butter at Varoma, Speed 1, 29 minutes (just do not burn the butter). Followed em's method thereon, and placed a blanched almond in the centre. I made 40 decent size biscuits.
I used to make it the conventional way on the stove top, however after cooking for 10 mins on Varoma I just had to keep going until I was satisfied that the butter had changed colour. I doubled the recipe, so perhaps this has something to do with the longer time or maybe difference between butter quality (?), but I know it used to take forever on the stove too and that's why I always double the recipe to make it worthwhile. I just love these biscuits.
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