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EARL GREY TEA & RASPBERRY JAM BISCUITS

EARL GREY TEA & RASPBERRY JAM BISCUITS

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Chilling Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 15 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 24 Biscuits

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 2 tbsp loose leaf earl grey tea (or you can use the contents of tea bags)
  • 4.2 oz caster sugar (superfine sugar)
  • 8.8 oz unsalted butter, at room temperature, chopped
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla bean paste
  • Large pinch of salt
  • 2.8 oz almond meal
  • 1 egg
  • 11.9 oz gluten-free flour blend (or you can use regular flour)
  • Good quality raspberry jam (or you can whichever flavour your prefer)
  • Icing sugar to dust (confectioner's sugar)

Instructions
 

  • Process the tea leaves in a food processor until finely chopped. Pass through a coarse sieve and discard any large solids. Add the sieved tea leaves and sugar back into the food processor and process again until well combined.
  • In an electric mixer with paddle attachment, beat the sugar mixture, butter, vanilla and salt in a large bowl until pale and creamy. Add the almond meal and egg and beat until combined. Add the flour and beat on low speed until just combined.
  • Gather the dough together and turn onto a clean, lightly floured surface. Divide in half and shape into discs. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for at least 2 hours or overnight to rest.
  • Preheat oven to 180°C (360°F). Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
  • Roll out 1 portion of dough between two sheets of lightly floured baking paper until 4mm thick (if the dough gets too warm and sticky, pop it back into the fridge to firm up). Use a 7cm (2.7 inch)* fluted cookie cutter to cut rounds from the dough, rerolling scraps as you go. Place on 1 prepared tray. Place tray in the fridge for 15 minutes to chill.
  • Roll out the remaining portion of dough. Use the same fluted cookie cutter to cut the same number of rounds as the last time, rerolling scraps. Use a 4cm (1.5 inch) shaped cutter to cut shapes in the centre of each round. Place the cut rounds on the second prepared tray and put the tiny cut out shapes on a separate tray or plate in the fridge to bake later. Place tray in the fridge for 15 minutes to chill.
  • Bake the two trays of round biscuits, swapping the trays halfway through cooking (or you can bake the trays separately as I did), for 12-14 minutes or until light golden. Leave on a rack to cool completely (they need to cool to harden).
  • When ready to bake the tiny shaped biscuits, bake them for 7-8 minutes at the same temperature or until light golden and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
  • Spread the whole round biscuits evenly with spoonfuls of jam. Dust the remaining round biscuits with cut out shapes with icing sugar (make sure you do this before sandwiching them together!). Sandwich together and serve.
  • The biscuits store very well in a sealed container. Serve 2-3 tiny cut out shaped biscuits with a cup of tea.

Notes

*You can use any sized or shaped cookie cutter you prefer – it will simply reduce or increase the amount of cookies you make.
Keyword Biscuits, Earl grey tea biscuits, Raspberry Jam Biscuits
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