Cafe Style Melting Moments Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease two baking trays.
• Cream the butter or margarine with the sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla essence or extract.
• Stir in the flour and mix well.
• Roll walnut sized pieces of the mixture into balls and toss in rolled oats or desiccated coconut.
• Cut each glace cherry into quarters, for quarter for each melting moment.
• Place on baking trays, flatten slightly and place a small piece of cherry on each biscuit. Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown but NOT dark brown.
• N.B. To help shape "ball" type biscuits, slightly dampen the hands.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180degrees (350F).
• Place the butter, icing sugar and vanilla in a bowl and beat with electric beaters until light and fluffly.
• Stir in the flour and cornflour until combined. The more evenly mixed the ingredients are, the meltier the biscuit so be sure to mix well!
• OPTIONAL:Place all the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a fluted nozzle.
• Pipe 3cm (1inch) rounds onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Best to start piping by piping the circular outline of the biscuit and working your way in a circular clockwise motion towards the middle of the biscuit. NOTE:If you do not wish to use a piping bag, simply roll balls measuring approx 2 teaspoon full of mixture onto the lined trays. Flatten slightly. Be sure to leave room for spreading. This amount of batter makes approx 32 individual biscuits.
• Cook for 12-14 minutes until biscuits are just golden. They may still look a little soft in the middle but they set upon cooling.
• Cool on trays.
• To make the filling: Place the butter, icing sugar, lemon juice and rind in a bowl and beat with electric beaters until fluffly and creamy. Pipe (or apply with knife) onto half the biscuits and sandwich with the remaining buscuits. Variations on this filling can be done with ORANGE; Replace the lemon juice and lemon rind with the same quantity of orange juice and rind. This can also be done with LIME in the same manner. These also taste good with caramel filling!