Golden Syrup Biscuits
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- 50 minutes to an 1hr for cooking and baking time!
- More effort
- Makes Biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 oz of butter
- 6 oz of self raising flour
- 2 oz or more of plain flour (if you need more to roll out)
- 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence
- 2 to 3 table spoons of golden syrup (heaped)
Method
- STEP 1Turn your oven up to 150ðC (gas mark 2) and grease a baking tray ready to put the biscuits on. Place to one side.
- STEP 2Place the butter and syrup into a saucepan and heat into a liquid then leave to cool in a safe place.
- STEP 3Once reasonably cool, pour into a glass bowl and add the raising flour, vanilla essence and baking soda.
- STEP 4Place in the fridge for at least an hour to become thicker then take out. Once taken out, sprinkle some plain flour over a flat surface.
- STEP 5Check that the mixture is thick enough to roll, if not, add some plain flour.
- STEP 6Take the mixture out and roll around and knead slightly with fists to stop it sticking, then roll out to about 3 to 5 mm thick and cut into biscuit shapes.
- STEP 7Place the biscuits on the greased tin and bake for about twenty minutes. Take out at the twenty minute mark and check its cooking well, then cook for another ten minutes , supervising the cooking.
- STEP 8Once golden brown, take the biscuits out and cool in the tray until cool enough to place onto a cooling rack until cold, then eat or store in a sealed box. Yum!!!