Valentine's Jammie Biscuits

🧂 Ingredients

• 100 g vegan margarine

  (the spreadable kind (not block butter))
• 60 g caster sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 140-150 g plain flour

  (we used 145g)
• 8 tsp seedless raspberry jam
• 1 tsp icing sugar

  (5g)

Instructions

• 1 Beat the margarine, caster sugar [https://geni.us/avvcastersugar] and vanilla
  extract [https://geni.us/avvvanillaextract] together in a bowl until light and
  creamy.
• 2 Add 140g of the flour to the bowl with the margarine, a little at a time, and
  mix together until combined.
• 3 Knead the dough briefly to ensure it comes together into a smooth ball.
• 4 If the dough is too dry and doesn’t come together, add 1/2 tsp of dairy free
  milk (or water) and try again. If the dough is too wet and sticks to your
  fingers when you try to bring it together, add a teaspoon (5g) more flour,
  briefly knead it in and then try again.
• 5 Flatten the ball of dough slightly, cover it with a re-usable wrap or cling film
  and place it in the fridge for 30 minutes to chill.
• 6 Line 2 baking trays with non-stick baking paper
  [https://geni.us/avvbakingpaper].
• 7 Roll the chilled dough out on a lightly floured surface to 3mm thick. Cut out 16
  x 6cm circles to form the lids and bases of your biscuits. Place 8 circles on
  one tray and 8 on the other.
• 8 Using a knife or cutter, cut out heart shaped holes from the centre of 8 of the
  dough circles to form the lids. Leave the other 8 circles whole. Please see the
  recipe video for a demonstration.
• 9 Refrigerate both trays of uncooked biscuits for a further 30 minutes. There is
  no need to cover the trays.
• 10 Preheat the oven to 160°C fan (180°C conventional / 350°F / gas mark 4).
• 11 Bake both trays of biscuits for 12 minutes until the biscuits are just starting
  to lightly colour. You want them to be a light creamy shortbread colour rather
  than golden.
• 12 Cool the biscuits on the trays for a few minutes and then transfer them to a
  cooling rack.
• 13 Once they are cool, place 3/4 - 1 tsp of jam on each of the biscuit bases (the
  circles that don’t have a heart shape cut out).
• 14 Place the lids (the biscuits with the heart cut out) on a board or plate and
  dust them lightly with icing sugar [https://geni.us/avvicingsugar].
• 15 Place the lids on top of the bases to sandwich in the jam.

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