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recipe makes: 12
Calories per biscuit: 170
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking
time: 8-10 minutes
Not suitable for freezing Christmas
recipe ingredients: *
cherries, 25 g (1 oz)
* almonds, flaked 40 g (1.5 oz)
* butter, unsalted
60 g (2.5 oz)
* sugar, caster 50 g (2 oz)
* cream, double 30 ml (2 tbsp)
*
sunflower seeds, 25 g (1 oz)
* mixed peel, chopped 20 g (0.75 oz)
* sultanas,
20 g (0.75 oz)
* flour, plain white 15 g (0.5 oz)
* chocolate, dark plain
pieces 125 g (4 oz) Christmas
recipe instructions: 1.
Take the almonds and crush slightly. Prepare roughly cut pieces of cherries. 2.
Prepare a solution of sugar in the butter and bring to the boil. Away from the
heat, mix in flour, almonds, cherries, sultanas, mixed peel, sunflower seeds and
cream. 3. Grease
a sheet of baking paper and place heaped teaspoonful amounts of the mixture from
step 2 onto it ensuring there is enough room for expansion during cooking. 4.
Bake till the edges are golden brown. 180 degrees centigrade (gas mark 4, 350
F). About 7 minutes. Take out of the oven and use a plain large metal biscuit
cutter to make rounds by pushing into the biscuits. Bake again until golden brown.
5. Cool for a couple
of minutes before removing to a wire rack for complete cooling. 6.
Repeat steps 3-5 for the remaining mixture from step 2. 7.
Prepare melted chocolate by heating in a bowl over water at boiling point. Then
take each biscuit and dip it into the choclate so all the edge is covered. Place
on non-stick paper till cooled
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