These buttery orange shortbread biscuits are perfect with a cup of tea for a mid-morning treat. Made with just four ingredients and in one bowl, this is a great recipe to try with children with the biscuits cut into a variety of shapes
Ingredients
For the biscuits
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500g plain flour
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125g icing sugar
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375g butter
- Finely grated zest of 2 oranges
For the bay leaf sugar
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2-3 dried bay leaves
- 100g granulated sugar
Method
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Place the flour, icing sugar and orange zest in a large bowl. Rub in the butter to form a breadcrumb like mixture, then gather together into a soft dough. Form into a large rectangular shape, wrap in cling film and chill in a refrigerator for 1 hour.
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Roll out to 1cm thick and use a circular cutter of your choice.
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Select Fan Plus 160°C on a Miele Oven and cook the biscuits for 25 minutes until lightly golden.
- Whilst the shortbread is cooking in a food processor, blitz together the bay leaves and sugar. Coat the biscuits in the sugar when they are still warm and then leave to cool slightly before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
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