With a hectic and stressful week in work I wanted to do some stress relieving baking and a recipe I found on a forum I lurk on, ticked all the right boxes. The recipe is based on Smitten Kitchen’s slice & bake cookie palette. I’ve never made a biscuit like this before, but I think I now may be hooked. It is such an easy technique and it was nice coming home from work with some fresh dough in the fridge knowing I was less than 15 min away from freshly baked biscuits. These are also the first biscuits (I think) that I’ve made in my KitchenAid. I did a half batch as quite frankly my hips are turning more Nigellaesque by the day.
While looking through my baking cupboard for biscuit fillings I found some glace cherries that really needed to be used. Along with my almond extract the idea hit me. 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. The primary reason for making them is for a treat in our lunchboxes as if I know I’ve got a little homemade treat in my box I’m less inclined to raid the staffroom biscuit tin. I’ve already started to think about other variations of this biscuit – dark chocolate & sour cherry, lemon & poppyseed, apricot & almond…
Cherry Bakewell Biscuits
Based on Smitten Kitchen’s slice & bake cookie palette
Makes 25
115g unsalted butter, room temperature
40g icing sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tsp almond extract
140 plain flour
100g glace cherries, chopped
1) Beat together butter and sugar until you have a buttercream, then beat in yolk and extract.
2) Add cherries and flour then beat again until ingredients are well combined. Flatted dough into a disk, cover in clingfilm and chill for 30 min.
3) Remove the dough from the fridge and roll out into a long log with a diameter of around 3cm. Wrap back up in the cling film and chill for a further 2 hours (minimum). If the dough isn’t chilled sufficiently it will begin to misshape when it is sliced ready for baking.
4) Preheat oven to 180oc. Cut the dough log into rounds about 1cm thick and place on a lined baking tray. Bake for 12-14 min until they are cooked. Once cooked transfer to a wire rack to cool.
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Lucie
August 19, 2010 at 7:51 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
These look delish! Very English – perfect with a cup of tea. Thanks for sharing.
wrenster
November 24, 2011 at 2:10 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Made these this week – absolutely delcious. Got a bit carried away and made chocolate and chocolate chip ones too! Thanks for the recipe
Jules
November 26, 2011 at 9:24 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Glad you enjoyed making them. I like the idea of the chocolate variant. They also work well with mini smarties.
Nelly
April 25, 2012 at 12:27 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
These look lovely, I love the log/cut method of making biscuits, also Cherry Bakewell is my all time favourite flavour combination.
These are going to the top of my to-bake list!
Jules
April 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I also like that the log can be made in advance and stored in the freezer meaning you can have freshly baked biscuits anytime.
GirlaboutBath (@GirlaboutBath)
November 27, 2012 at 8:48 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Currently making these – it’s certainly a good sign that the biscuit dough tastes so good….
Jules
November 27, 2012 at 9:09 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Thank you. Your comment has made me laugh. I promise the biscuits are even better than the dough!
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