Walnut and Lemon Shortbreads

Ingredients

Makes 24

1 1/4 cups walnuts
125g butter, softened to room temperature
2 tablespoons CSR Caster Sugar
Zest of 2 lemons
1 cup plain flour, sifted
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 cup CSR Pure Icing Sugar

Method

Preheat oven to 180ºC conventional or 160ºC fan forced.
Place walnuts in food processor and process until finely ground. Place ground walnuts aside in a bowl.
Combine butter, CSR Caster Sugar and lemon zest in a food processor and process until creamy and pale. Add flour, sea salt and ground walnuts. Process for a further 30 seconds or until mixture forms a dough.
Roll tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls. Place onto baking paper-lined trays and bake for 20 –25 minutes. Biscuits will crack on top when cooking. This is ok. Remove biscuits from oven, and while still hot dust with CSR Pure Icing Sugar.

Dusting biscuits with icing sugar while still warm forms a wonderful sugary coating. The icing sugar partly dissolves and coats the biscuits.

Comments

Great Gift Idea - wrap in pieces of coloured tissue paper.

Caster Sugar

Ingredients: cane sugar

Caster sugar dissolves easily so it is ideal for meringues, puddings, jellies and cake mixes. When used in baking, the smaller sugar crystals caramelise evenly so it produces a fine golden colour in the finished product.
Being a superfine white sugar it can be used as a dry topping, often sprinkled over fruits or baked goods as a light dusting finish.

Pure Icing Sugar

Ingredients: cane sugar

While no cake would be complete without it, icing sugar can also be used to make goodies such as shortbread, cream fillings, marshmallow, and fondant; anywhere a smooth, soft finished texture is required. CSR Pure Icing Sugar is the perfect icing sugar for all your traditional and decorative special icing needs. As CSR Pure Icing Sugar is 100% natural sugar this ensures the icing has a firm setting quality every time.