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What are you waiting for? It’s time to answer the call of your taste buds and bring home the unparalleled taste of Horseshoe Butter Biscuits.
Horseshoe Butter Biscuits
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 40 depending on size 1x
- Category: Cake, Cookies and Tarts, Cupcakes
- Method: Easy
- Cuisine: South African
Description
Indulge in the curve of deliciousness – Horseshoe Butter Biscuits, your perfect Insta-treat!
Ingredients
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- 250g butter
- 1/2 tsp almond essence
- 1/2 cup icing sugar sifted
- 1/2 cup cornflour
- About 2 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup coarsely crushed almonds
- 1/2 cup caster sugar for dredging (also known as Castor sugar)
- 1/4 cup roasted walnuts
- 1/2 teaspoon chicory and coffee essence
Instructions
- Preheat oven 180C / 350F.
- Cream butter, icing sugar, and essence add flour and cornflour to make a soft dough.
- Add crushed almonds and knead well to incorporate them into the dough.
- Take small pieces of dough, roll the length of your palm (about 5-6 cm long), and gently curve the edges inwards.
- Bake long enough to turn slightly golden in color, depending on your own oven.
- Dredge in caster sugar while warm.
Note: I tweaked it slightly by adding roasted walnuts as well as Chicory and coffee essence
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested by Preshana
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 cookies
- Calories: 205
- Sugar: 6.1 g
- Sodium: 2.2 mg
- Fat: 13.1 g
- Saturated Fat: 6.6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 1.1 g
- Protein: 2.7 g
- Cholesterol: 26.9 mg
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I can’t wait to try these! I bet they taste as good as they look.
Hi there Catherine. I hope you will enjoy these Horseshoe Butter Biscuits, to make and then to devour them. Have fun.
These look delicious! I love baking bread, so I’ll be trying these soon! (I found this on the Unlimited Link Party 125!)
Morning Julie. Hope you will enjoy these cookies. If you love baking bread do take a look as we have plenty of bread recipes here on the blog. Hope you will also come and participate in SSPS
Great taste. I love the almondy and coffee flavour.
Morning Jeff, Thank you for dropping in and we hope that you will enjoy and try these Horseshoe Butter Biscuits and enjoy them.
Oh these sound so yummy!!
Glad you like it, please try it and enjoy.