How to: Linzer biscuits with Nila Holden
A Christmas treat- meet Nila Holden, owner of aptly named bakery Nila Holden. She tells us all about her business, and shows us how to make some Christmas designs and Linzer biscuits.
Recipe:
Ingredients (for dough)
Makes approx 12 medium sized cookies
75g salted butter, cold from the fridge
275g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
95g caster sugar
1 small free range egg, beaten
2 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl and add the caster sugar. Grate the cold butter into the mixing bowl. The colder your butter, the easier this will be. Or if easier, you could cut the butter into small cubes and add to the bowl.
Rub the butter into the dry ingredients using your fingers until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Crack the egg into a separate bowl to ensure you don’t get any rogue shell and beat. Add the golden syrup and vanilla essence to beaten egg and mix.
Make a well in the dry ingredients bowl and pour in the beaten egg, golden syrup & vanilla essence mixture. Mix together to form a dough. Try not to overwork the dough as this will make it tough.
Place dough into a plastic food bag and flatten to form a disc shape. Refrigerate for 30 mins to chill the dough.
Remove and make recipe as above