Who could resist a zesty treat? These dainty melt-in-the-mouth lemon biscuits make a scrumptious addition to an afternoon tea spread
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:30 mins
- Cook:8 mins – 12 mins
- Easy
- Makes 20
- Freezable (Biscuits can be frozen unfilled and un-iced)
Ingredients
- 200g soft butter
- 140g caster sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- zest 2 lemons, juice 1
- 280g plain flour, plus a little extra for rolling
- ½ jar good lemon curd (we used Tiptree)
- 140g icing sugar, sifted
Method
- STEP 1
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.
- STEP 2
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.
