Shortbread Puffs Also Called Melting Moments Recipes

MELT - IN - YOUR - MOUTH SHORTBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Whip butter with an electric mixer until fluffy. Stir in the confectioners' sugar, cornstarch, and flour. Beat on low for one minute, then on high for 3 to 4 minutes. Drop cookies by spoonfuls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Watch that the edges don't brown too much. Cool on wire racks.

AUSSIE MELTING MOMENTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 160 deg Celsius Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
• Beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and vanilla essence with an electric mixer until pale and creamy.
• Sift together flour and cornflour, and add to the butter mixture.
• Mix together gently with a wooden spoon, and then with your hands.
• Use lightly floured hands to roll mix into walnut-sized balls.
• Put on trays about 5cm apart, and flatten with a lightly floured fork to about 1cm thick.
• Bake for about 15 minutes, swapping trays in oven halfway through (ie. at 7 minutes), until cooked through.
• Cool on baking trays.
• Filling: Use an electric mixer to beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and cocoa together until well-combined.
• Sandwich cooled biscuits together with the filling then lightly dust with icing sugar.
• Vary the filling flavour by substituting the cocoa with one of the following:.
• grated rind of 1 orange.
• grated rind of 1 lemon.
• 1 tbsp of passionfruit pulp.

MELTING MOMENTS

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add almond extract.
• Sift dry ingredients.
• Add dry ingredients.
• Chill dough for at least 1 hour.
• Shape level teaspoons of dough into balls.
• Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375 for 10 minutes.
• Cool.
• Top with frosting.
• Frosting.
• Melt butter in sauce pan.
• Remove from heat and stir in flavorings and powdered sugar.
• Add cream to spreading consistency.
• Tint frosting with colors of your choice.

ORIGINAL BE-RO MELTING MOMENTS-AFTERNOON TEA BISCUITS OR COOKIES

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.

MELTING MOMENTS

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).

MELTING MOMENTS COOKIES

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.