Buttery treacle spice biscuits recipe

Buttery treacle spice biscuits

Makes: about 20 decent-sized biscuits

Ingredients:

200g self-raising flour
100g butter, soften so it’s workable
65g soft brown sugar
1tbsp of dark treacle
1tbsp of golden syrup (or a second tbsp of treacle – if you love the dark stuff)
1 heaped tsp of ground cinnamon
A little icing sugar for dusting (optional)

Method

Note: I don’t have a food processor so have to do things the old fashioned way with a wooden spoon. It would be a lot easier in a food processor!

0. Preheat the oven to about 200C/390F and grease a large cookie sheet.

1. In a large mixing bowl, mix together the butter, sugar, syrup, treacle & cinnamon – turn it from this:

To this:

2. Add the flour to the treacle mixture then mix thoroughly until the dough is a uniform brown.

3. Biscuit shapin’ time. Break off a little of the dough and roll into a ball – mine were maybe 2cm/an inch in diameter – then lightly press onto the greased cookie sheet. Be as perfectionist or slapdash as you want ;) Repeat until all the dough is used up, leaving a little space between each biscuit to allow for spreading – it makes about 20 decent sized biscuits for me, which just fits on a cookie sheet for me.

4. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 10-15 mins until the edges start to darken. Because the dough is quite dark, it’s hard to see the golden-brown/brown stages of baking so keep an eye on them. The ones at the back of this pic are verging on overdone.

5. For a pretty end product, dust with icing sugar (or icing sugar with a little – 1/4tsp or less – of cinnamon added). I forgot to take a picture of the biscuits after doing that – but I thought the cookie sheet looked fun once I’d removed the biscuits!

6. Try not to eat them all in one sitting. ;)