Valentine's baking recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 8 mins; recipe has butter, caster sugar, egg yolk, vanilla extract, lemon, plain flour, lemon curd and icing sugar.
Lemon kisses
Course: Valentines baking
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
30 mins
Ingredients
- Lemon: zest 2 lemons, juice 1
- Butter: 200g soft butter
- Caster Sugar: 140g caster sugar
- Plain Flour: 280g plain flour, plus a little extra for rolling
- Egg Yolk: 1 egg yolk
- Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Icing Sugar: 140g icing sugar, sifted
- Lemon Curd: 1/2 jar good lemon curd (we used Tiptree)
Directions
- Stir together the butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and zest from 1 lemon using a wooden spoon. Stir in the flour - you might need to get your hands in at the end. Tip onto a floured surface, bring together into a smooth dough, then roll out, half at a time, and stamp out 5-6cm rounds. Keep re-rolling trimmings, you should get about 40 biscuits. Arrange on trays lined with baking parchment, cover with cling film and chill for 30 mins.
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Bake the biscuits for 8-12 mins until pale golden, then cool. Once cool, spread half the biscuits with a little lemon curd and top with a second biscuit. Arrange the biscuits on wire racks over trays. Mix enough lemon juice into the icing sugar to give a runny consistency, then drizzle over the biscuits. Scatter over a bit more lemon zest and leave to set.
