Irish hazelnut honey biscuits

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Mar 16th 2006 @ 7:11PM

Irish Haxelnut Honey Cakes

Apparently the saying 'Nip the Cake' stems from the Irish custom of breaking off a small corner of a freshly baked cake or biscuit to ward off bad luck.

Irish Hazelnut Honey Biscuits

75g hazelnuts
150g plain flour
salt
100g butter
50g caster sugar
4 tablespoons thick honey

Toast the nuts in the oven for 10 minutes. You need to remove any skins before grinding to a powder. Cream the butter and sugar together and sift in the flour and salt. Add the nuts. Knead lightly. Chill the dough for 30 minutes.

Roll out the dough and cut iinto 5cm rounds. Grease a baking tray, line with paper and bake at 190C/375F/G5 for 7 - 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Serve sandwiched together with thick honey.

I didn't actually ground the hazelnuts up all that finely wanting a little crunch in the biscuit; it made the dough rather fragile though, but the end result is rather tasty.

[Photo Andrew Barrow]

Filed Under: Ingredients, Methods
Tags: baking, biscuits, british isles, cookies, food and drink, FoodAndDrink, honey, irish, nuts, recipes, seeds

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3-19-2006 @5:10PM sha said... ok enough of lurking...those cookies are easy to do (bah show off!!!)

well at least if they dont sit at my doorstep this week i might as well just bake them
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3-19-2006 @5:10PM sha said... ok enough of lurking...those cookies are easy to do (bah show off!!!)

well at least if they dont sit at my doorstep this week i might as well just bake them
Reply