Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bakewell cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Beat the sugar, oil, eggs and almond extract until combined. Sift in the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. You may need to rotate halfway to ensure equal cooking! Wait until the biscuits have cooled slightly to make the icing.
Bakewell Cookies is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Bakewell Cookies is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bakewell cookies using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bakewell Cookies:
- Prepare 125 g butter (softened)
- Make ready Tsp almond extract
- Get 250 g caster sugar
- Get 125 g soft brown sugar
- Get 1 egg
- Get Pot of glace cherries
- Prepare 100 g ground almonds
- Get 50 g marzipan
- Get 150 g self raising flour
- Take Handful flaked almonds
- Make ready 125 g icing sugar
My mother always included cherries in her version of Bakewell tart, and it is her recipe that inspired my biscuits. This recipe for Cherry Bakewell Cookies uses a small amount of both marzipan and cherries. I love the thriftiness of it. Very similar in texture and cooking method to my Sunshine Cookies recipe - The joy is in the eating and how quick these cookies come together.
Steps to make Bakewell Cookies:
- Cream together the almond extract, butter and both sugars in a large bowl
- Add the egg and mix well.
- Pour the whole pot of glace cherries into a small bowl and cut them up smaller with a knife.
- Add into the bowl the flour and ground almonds along with the chopped cherries
- Grate the marzipan over the top to add some extra almond flavour!
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 2/ 150C. Line two large baking trays with greaseproof paper.
- Mix everything together with your hands until you make a dough. This is one to roll your sleeves up for!
- Roll the dough into small balls around the size of a golf ball and place onto a baking tray
- Using the back of your hand push them down to flatten slightly
- Sprinkle a few flaked almonds onto each biscuit
- Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes. You may need to rotate halfway to ensure equal cooking!
- Wait until the biscuits have cooled slightly to make the icing. Then mix together 125g of icing sugar with another splash of almond extract and then enough water to make it into a smooth icing consistency.
I love the thriftiness of it. Very similar in texture and cooking method to my Sunshine Cookies recipe - The joy is in the eating and how quick these cookies come together. Be warned, this is a very sticky mixture. Biscuits inspired by my favourite cake, a Bakewell tart and so it was born - Cherry Bakewell Biscuits. They are incredibly moreish and Hubby & I are trying not to eat them all in one sitting, and yes they do taste like the hallowed Bakewell.
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