Aussie Melting Moments

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 250 g butter (at room temperature)
• 80 g powdered sugar icing (a confectioner's sugar/cornflour blend sold here in oz; substitute icing sugar)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 265 g plain flour (1 3/4 cup)
• 50 g cornflour (cornstarch, (1/3 cup)
• icing sugar, for dusting
• 60 g butter (at room temperature)
• 80 g icing sugar (1/2 cup)
• 1 tablespoon cocoa

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 160 deg celsius line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
• 2 beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and vanilla essence with an electric mixer until pale and creamy.
• 3 sift together flour and cornflour, and add to the butter mixture.
• 4 mix together gently with a wooden spoon, and then with your hands.
• 5 use lightly floured hands to roll mix into walnut-sized balls.
• 6 put on trays about 5cm apart, and flatten with a lightly floured fork to about 1cm thick.
• 7 bake for about 15 minutes, swapping trays in oven halfway through (ie. at 7 minutes), until cooked through.
• 8 cool on baking trays.
• 9 filling: use an electric mixer to beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and cocoa together until well-combined.
• 10 sandwich cooled biscuits together with the filling then lightly dust with icing sugar.
• 11 vary the filling flavour by substituting the cocoa with one of the following:.
• 12 grated rind of 1 orange.
• 13 grated rind of 1 lemon.
• 14 1 tbsp of passionfruit pulp.