Bake Off week 2: biscuits. Biscuits have never been my strong suit, as you can see from earlier posts, but I'm not skimping out on a challenge, and one made even tougher by baking for my gluten free friend. I chose this recipe because my housemates requested chewy biscuits and these sounded delicious.
First the oven was preheated and two baking trays lined with parchment. I had to melt the butter a little to cream with the sugar as I forgot to take it out of the fridge earlier... But this seemed to work ok. Into this the egg was beaten and then the zest from the orange and lemon mixed in.
In a separate bowl the (gluten free) flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and ground cardamom were mixed together. I lost my pestle and mortar in the move so I had to improvise with a cup and a heavy jar. Not quite the same really... The dry ingredients were folded into the wets ones and finally the desiccated coconut went in.
Using two spoons I made small balls of dough on the tray, leaving space between them. This perhaps wasn't quite enough space with hindsight. These were baked in the oven and I rotated the shelves to make sure they baked evenly.
They came out very spread out and they had to be very carefully separated off the parchment. They ended up being very thin and I wonder if this was to do with the flour type or just my terrible biscuit skills! Nonetheless, they tasted wonderful, even in pieces. I'll definitely try this one again.
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