Lemon Spice Buttons Recipe

Recipe : Lemon Spice Buttons

Ingredients :

2 cups white plain flour

3/4 cup white self-raising flour

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground cloves

30g prune puree

30g reduced fat butter/margarine

1/2 cup brown sugar (80g loosely packed)

1/2 cup golden syrup

1 egg white, lightly beaten

Icing -

3/4 cup icing sugar

1/2 egg white

1 tsp white plain flour

1/2 tbsp lemon juice

few drops lemon essence

1 drop yellow food color (optional)

Method :

Preheat oven to moderate 200C. Lightly spray 2 flat oven trays with vegetable oil spray. Sift first 5 ingredients together in a medium bowl. Set aside. Combine butter, prune puree, sugar and golden syrup in a small saucepan and stir over low heat until butter is melted and sugar dissolved. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes.

Pour the butter mixture into a large mixing bowl and stir in the lightly beaten egg white. Gently fold in the sifted dry ingredients. Knead gently with hands until mixture becomes less sticky. Cover the  mixture and refrigerate for 1/2 hour.

Remove chilled dough from bowl and place it between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper. Using a rolling pin, roll dough out until approximately 1cm thick. Cut into rounds using a 3cm cutter and place onto prepared oven trays about 3cm apart. Bake for 6-8 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool on trays. When cool, dip biscuits halfway into icing to coat, resting them on the edge of a tray so that icing can set. Refrigerate for 10 minutes to harden. Remove from fridge and store in an airtight container.

Icing - Sift icing sugar and flour together. Set aside. In a small deep bowl, beat egg white lightly and gradually fold in the sifted icing sugar and flour. Stir in the lemon essence and enough lemon juice to mix the icing to a consistency that is not too runny. Fold in the food coloring.

Makes 36 biscuits

Each Biscuit -

Fat - 0.6g

Kilojoules - 305

Calories - 72

Carbohydrates - 15.5g

Protein - 1.2g

Fibre - 0.4g

These spicy biscuits are a real treat. They will hold their taste and texture for days and have only 0.6 fat. You will want to make them again and again.

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