Original Be Ro Melting Moments Afternoon Tea Biscuits Or Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease two baking trays.
• Cream the butter or margarine with the sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla essence or extract.
• Stir in the flour and mix well.
• Roll walnut sized pieces of the mixture into balls and toss in rolled oats or desiccated coconut.
• Cut each glace cherry into quarters, for quarter for each melting moment.
• Place on baking trays, flatten slightly and place a small piece of cherry on each biscuit. Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown but NOT dark brown.
• N.B. To help shape "ball" type biscuits, slightly dampen the hands.

Steps:

• Mix butter, flour and powdered sugar.
• Roll into balls the size of ping-pong balls.
• Place on cookie sheet and flatted to about 1/2 inch.
• Bake at 425* for just a few minutes until the edges just begin to show color (really watch them closely!) When cool, frost with the icing mixture on the FLAT side- to create a sandwich cookie.
• (You can just frost the cookie tops to double the cookie total. Also, you may substitute almond extract and a touch of red coloring for the cherry juice).

Steps:

• Cream butter.
• Add icing sugar & cornstarch & beat on high until fluffy.
• Add vanilla & pinch of salt.
• Add flour and beat mixture until light and fluffy.
• Roll dough into small balls and place on cookie sheet. Dough will be very soft and sticky. Flatten with palm of your hand, lightly floured.
• Decorate with red sprinkles.
• Bake at 300 F for 10 minutes.
• Makes about 5 dozen cookies. Freezes well.

Steps:

• Cream together margarine and sugar, add the essence.
• Stir in the flour and coco and mix thoroughly.
• Devide the mixture into 20 pieces, roll each into a ball with wet hands and coat with rolled oats or coconut.
• Place on a greased baking sheet and press out a bit, place a small bit of chocolate on each one.
• Bake in a moderate oven (325-350) (165-175) for 15-20 minutes.

Steps:

• In large bowl combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cream of tarter, orange rind and orange peel, stirring well.
• Cut in butter until crumbly.
• Mix buttermilk and orange juice together, stir to mix well and pour over flour mixture, combing quickly, dough will be soft.
• Turn out onto a lightly floured surface, knead gently 10 times and pat into 1/2" or 3/4 " thickness.
• Cut the dough with a 3" cookie round.
• Brush biscuits with milk.
• Dip sugar cube in orange juice and press into top of biscuit.
• Bake on greased cookie sheet at 450 degrees.
• for 13 - 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Combine dry ingredients.
• Cut in the shortening until mixture is like coarse oatmeal.
• Stir in 3/4 cup milk, then add 1 or 2 tablespoons more milk to form a soft dough.
• Knead a few strokes on a lightly floured board.
• Do not overwork dough.
• Roll to about 1/2 inch thick.
• Cut with a floured biscuit cutter.
• Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet at 425°F for about 10 minutes or until lightly browned.

Steps:

• In medium mixing bowl, cream butter till light; then gradually add the confectioners' sugar and salt.
• Beat this mixture thoroughly, about 3 minutes; gradually add the cornstarch and flour and blend well.
• Form the dough into walnut-sized balls and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Transfer the balls to an ungreased cookie sheet and let stand for 20 minutes or until soft, then make a thumprint on top of each to flatten the cookies.
• Bake for 15-16 minutes or until the cookies are golden on the bottom. Remove to rack to cool.
• While the cookies cool, make the icing. In a small bowl, combine the butter, confectioners' sugar, almond extract, and half-and-half until creamy.
• This may be tinted with food coloring.or just left white.
• Ice the cookies when they are completely cooled.
• Store in tins, separated in layers by plastic wrap.