These biscuits are perfect with a cup of tea or coffee! With strong orange flavours and the distinct taste of pecan nuts, you can't go wrong. You could even top them with some melted chocolate for a chocolate orange flavour!
Ingredients:
225g softened butter or margarine
150g caster sugar
250g self raising flour
Grated rind of 1 orange
Juice of 1/2 the orange
90g roughly chopped pecan nuts
1 small egg
Method:
1. Cream the butter and the sugar together until light and fluffy.
2. Prepare the wet ingredients by cracking an egg into a jug and whisking the orange juice into it.
3. Pour the egg and orange mixture into the creamed butter and sugar until fully incorporated and smooth.
4. Add the orange zest and pecan nuts and stir into the mixture until evenly distributed.
5. Gradually add the flour into the mixture - half of the flour initially and once that's incorporated, add in the rest.
6. Wrap the mixture in cling film (or alternatively put cling film over the bowl) and leave it in the freezer for around 30 minutes.
7. When the mixture has been in the freezer for 30 minutes, check it. It may still be a bit wet, so put it back into the bowl you used earlier and keep adding more flour gradually until it feels like a traditional dough.
8. Flour the work surface and roll half of the biscuit mixture into a ball. Roll it out using a rolling pin until it's around 1cm thick.
9. Cut out the biscuits using a biscuit cutter - any shape will do, but I used a circle one.
10. Transfer the biscuits onto a baking tray (with baking paper on).
11. Put the biscuits into a 180C preheated oven for 10-12 minutes.
12. Whilst the first batch are cooking, repeat the process of rolling the dough and cutting it. Once the first batch are out, take them off the tray and place more biscuits onto it and bake them.
13. Enjoy your biscuits with tea or coffee!
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