Always a fav at this time of year,nice soft texture but has that "Dunking" factor I enjoy.
Ingredients
3 fresh eggs
50g Sugar
50g Runny Honey
200g Finely Ground Almonds
200g Finely Ground Hazelnuts
200g Lemon and Orange Candied Peel
1 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
Ground seeds of 10 Cardamon Pods
1/2 tsp Ground Ginger
1/2 tsp Allspice
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
1/2 tsp Ground Cloves
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1/4 tsp Almond essence
Sheets of Rice paper
Whole Almonds
Assemble Ingredients
Whisk Eggs,with the sugar.honey,vanilla sugar,to a soft whip.
Then fold in Ground Nuts,candied peel and spices.
Oblaten are the traditional rice papers used but I like using Chinese rice paper as the salt in its makeup add to the flavour
as you bite into the biscuit.
I cut rectangular rice paper bases 3 ins x 2 ins but you can cut them how you like,then place a blob of the mixture on each rice paper
base,then wet your fingers and flatten it down to around 1cm thickness.
once flattened I add a whole Almond as it adds a bit of crunch,again traditionally you can use half ground and half crushed nuts if you prefer.
Heat fan oven to 150 degrees and cook on middle shelf for 12 mins, much longer will make biscuits too crisp,but youll have to adjust to your own oven.
Once cooked I let cool for an hour and enjoy these yummy Biscuits with Coffee.
Again you can make a sugar glaze but I enjoy them ""Just so "".
Enjoy
Merry Christmas
Gazza
