This easy recipe for cookies will please all ages and will be appreciated when offered for morning or afternoon tea.
These sweet shortbread biscuits are perfect to serve with tea or coffee. There is nothing quite as nice as being served fresh homemade biscuits when visiting someone for morning or afternoon tea.
This cookie recipe is simple enough for children to help with, although it is probably best to avoid allowing younger children to spread the cream as the biscuits may crumble if handled too roughly. Young children will love pressing fork marks into the shortbread or simply pushing the ‘lid’ onto each pair of biscuits after the cream has been spread onto the base.
(Note - If self-raising flour is not available, substitute 1 cup plain (all-purpose) flour and 1½ teaspoons baking powder)
These shortbreads are quite sweet. They can be served as individual shortbreads (without the cream centre) to reduce the sweetness factor. Single shortbreads can be simply decorated by lightly dusting with icing sugar. Alternately, for a child’s party or morning tea, the honey cream can be piped or spooned onto the top of the biscuits and decorated with sprinkles. In this instance it is a good idea to make the party cookies smaller (reducing the cooking time if necessary) so as to be more easily handled by little fingers and to prevent a sugar overload.