Categories: Biscuits

Ingredients

• 250 g butter
• 1 C caster sugar
• 1/4 C golden syrup
• 1 T liquid honey
• 70 g packet flaked almonds
• 1/2 t cinnamon
• 3 t ground ginger
• 1 t baking soda
• 1 T water
• 3 C flour
• 1/2 C crystallised ginger, chopped (optional)
• To decorate:
• lightly beaten egg white
• extra flaked almonds

Directions

1. Place first seven ingredients into a saucepan, stir gently over a moderate heat until butter melts.

2. Bring to boil, then remove from heat.

3. Dissolve baking soda in the water, stir into the butter mixture.

4. Sift flour into a large bowl, make a well in the centre and pour in the butter mixture, mixing with a wooden spoon into a stiff dough – adding chopped ginger with the flour if using.

5. Wrap and refrigerate dough for 2 hours until firm, then knead dough lightly and either roll out to 0.5cm thickness, then cut with biscuit cutters – or roll into balls of your choice of size.

6. Brush edges of biscuits with beaten egg white, decorate with almonds.

7. Bake biscuits on paper-lined tray at 180oC approx 15 minutes, until nicely browned.

8. Leave on tray for a few minutes, before transferring onto cooling rack – biscuits will crisp more as they cool.

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