Lemon Kisses

Hello weekend!

How excited I am to see you!

So this week has been a crazy busy week, but I still found time to do a spot or two of baking, as always. We had a few lemons left in our fridge that were never going to get used up, so I thought I may as well pop them into one of my bakes*. And this is the result!

Lemon flavoured shortbread biscuits, sandwiched together with a tangy lemon curd (which I admit, is a supermarket lemon curd, but that also needed using up so...), and finished with a dusting of icing sugar. They go perfect with a cuppa, or to be honest just by themselves. With a biscuit base that literally does just melt in your mouth and then a hit of delicious lemon, you really can't go wrong.


Ingredients
200g softened butter
140g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
280g plain flour, sieved
1 lemon: zest
1/2 jar lemon curd

Icing sugar, to finish
Plain flour, to dust

Method
Cream together the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, and then add in the egg yolk and beat well. Sieve in the flour and add the zest of one lemon, and mix well. You may need to use your hands towards the end to get those last few bits into a ball. You should end up with a really soft and golden shortbread dough.

Next, roll out the dough, a half at a time (this will keep the dough from getting too overworked), and cut into 5-6 cm rounds. You can keep them to whatever thickness you like, but remember you'll be putting two together. You should get 36-40 rounds out of this dough.

Pop the biscuits onto greased or lined baking trays and leave in the fridge to chill for around half an hour.

Once chilled, pre-heat your oven to 180C and bake the biscuits for 8-12 minutes until pale golden brown. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on the trays slightly before moving them to a wire rack.

When the biscuits are cool, spread a thin layer of lemon curd on half of the biscuits; I used a teaspoon of lemon curd for each biscuit. Then sandwich together the biscuits and finish with a dusting of icing sugar. Alternatively, you can make up a little water icing by using some sieved icing sugar, the juice of the lemon, and a little yellow food colouring and then simply pipe some decoration on top!

And voila!



A batch of zesty lemon biscuits perfect for a weekend tea party.

Happy baking!
Charley x





*BBC Good Food Recipe

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