Danielle McCarthy
Food & Wine

Coffee cream biscuits

These little biscuits sandwiched together with delicious coffee cream are irresistible to those who have tasted them once! Filling and decorating the biscuits takes a while, but it can be a great way to keep grandkids occupied.

Makes: 40 filled biscuits

Ingredients:

Method:

  1. Beat the soft (but not melted) butter with the sugar and egg in a bowl or food processor. Dissolve instant coffee in the hot water, and add, with the sifted flour and baking powder. Mix to form a dough, adding a little extra flour if it is too sticky to handle. Using your hands, roll the dough into a (thin) roll, 40cm long. Cut this into 2x20cm rolls, wrap each in plastic and chill in the freezer until firm enough to cut without flattening.
  2. Heat oven to 180C (170C fan bake), with the rack just below the middle. Line a baking tray with baking paper or a Teflon liner. Cut each log into about 40 slices with a sharp (serrated) knife. Place these slices on the prepared baking tray. (Bake the first tray-full while you slice the second log.)
  3. Bake for about 10 minutes or until very lightly browned. While biscuits are warm, lift them onto a cooling rack.

For the filling

  1. In the (unwashed) bowl or food processor, dissolve the instant coffee in the hot water, add remaining ingredients and mix to icing consistency.
  2. Put the filling into a plastic bag with the corner cut off, and pipe a blob on to the centre of one of each pair of biscuits (or spread filling onto biscuits with a knife). Do not ‘stick’ the biscuits together until you have used up all the filling as evenly as possible.
  3. Leave to firm on a rack before storing in an airtight container.

Variations: Add 1/4 cup of finely chopped walnuts to the dough. Reserve 2 teaspoons of beaten egg and paint a little on top of half the uncooked biscuits, then top with more finely chopped walnuts.

Hint: Carefully wrapped rolls of uncooked biscuit dough will keep in the freezer for up to a month.

Written by Alison and Simon Holst. First appeared on Stuff.co.nz. Image credit: Lindsay Keat/Stuff.co.nz.

Tags:
recipe, biscuits, Coffee, cream