Prep time- 15min
Cooking time 10-12 min
10 heaped dessert spoon of flour
2 dessert spoons of sugar
2 dessert spoon of butter
1 heaped teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cardamon pod of seeds, crushed.
1 dessert spoon of treacle
2 dessert spoon golden syrup
1 dessert spoon of cold water.
NB- the recipe is in dessert spoons because I still can't find the scales. Treacle refers to black treacle, and syrup means golden syrup. Don't add rising agent to this dough- you want the detail to remain in the biscuit, and rising will stop this. I made my x-wings using a soft silicon ice-cube mould.
1. Pre-heat the oven to 170°C
2. Sift the flour and other dry ingredients together.
3. Rub in the butter.
4. and the treacle and syrup, stir in well
5. Hopefully a crumbly dough will start to form already, at this point SLOWLY add a dribble of water, just enough to form the dough into a ball.
6. Flour the silicon mould, and knock of the excess
7. Divide the dough into 16ths, place a blob in one of the x-wing shapes, pressing gently. Ensure there is dough around the x-wing shape- this allows you take x-wing out of the mould without loosing any important bits. I've tried covering the whole mould then removing and diving the x-wings, and making each x-wing the same size as an ice-cube without the base dough- the x-wings came out looking like they had met a squadron TIE-fighters on the way to the baking tray.
8. Place on a baking tray and cook in the middle of the oven for 10-12 minutes, or until golden brown. Keep a close eye on the x-wings and the lasers tent to burn quite quickly.
9. Remove from the oven and proceed to re-enact the Battle of Yavin, Bakura or Endor- or just fly the squadron straight through the magcon field with a glass of milk :).
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ReplyDeleteHow do you mean Ned? :)
ReplyDeleteWe don't just get the old 400g flour, mix well, 30mins at gas mark 6. We get Lasers and alternate measurments. and battles.
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