Christmas Make & Bake Part 3: Rudolph Biscuits

Posted by samossie on December 13, 2011 · 3 Comments 

These gorgeous little biscuits with their bright red noses are just perfect for Christmas. Make them on Christmas Eve to leave out for Father Christmas and Rudolph of course! If you can resist eating them yourself that is.

You will need:

115 gr butter – leave it out of the fridge for a while to soften it up

125 gr sugar

1 egg

100gr chopped nuts

Vanilla essence

pinch of salt

Jam

Get making:

Cream the butter and sugar together. If you have a whizzy machine then use that, it’s flipping hard work otherwise. Keep mixing until the butter is pale and fluffy.

Add the egg yolk and a few drops of vanilla essence to the butter mixture and mix well.

Weight and sift the flour and mix it into the butter mixture until it makes a smooth dough. It will seems like there isn’t enough moisture to make the dough but keep mixing and get your hands in there if needed!

Once you have a nice dough pop it in the fridge for an hour or so and get the oven up to about 180°C

Fill a bowl with the egg white and another with the nuts and some sugar. Take the dough from the fridge and divide it into small balls. Dunk these balls in the egg white and then roll in the nut mixture.

Put the nutty balls onto a greased baking tray.

Pop a thumbprint into the top of each little ball and put them into the oven for 10 minutes or until slightly golden.

The holes in the tops may have filled into during the baking so use a wooden spoon handle to push them back down, fill each hole with jam and put back in the oven for another 10 minutes until golden brown and well baked.

Leave the biscuits to cool and dust with icing sugar to serve.

Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for Christmas Make & Bake 4 and if you haven’t already take a look at Christmas Make & Bake 1: Peppermint Bark and Christmas Make & Bake 2: Woollen Wonders

Merry Christmas!

Sam

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