Shortbread with Candy Centers

In our house we love to bake and this Sunday we crushed up some sweets and made shortbread with a little more flour than usual and hey presto, we couldn’t stop eating these little treats. Please see recipe below, if you dare …

Ingredients

• 4oz or 100gms Butter
• 4oz or 100gms Sugar
• 1 Egg, beaten
• Few drops of Vanilla Essence
• 9oz or 225gms Plain Flour
• 9oz or 225gms Coloured Crushed Boiled Sweets (you may need more or less)

Method

• Pre-heat the oven to 180C, 375F, Gas Mark 5.
• Cream together the butter and sugar, then add the egg and vanilla essence.
• Sift and stir in the flour and mix to a soft dough.
• Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to around 3mm thick.
• Cut into shapes with a cookie cutter and using a smaller shaped cutter to cut out the middle.
• Transfer the cookies on to a baking tray lined with baking parchment paper and place the crushed  sweets in the middle of each biscuit. Makes about 24 biscuits.
• Bake in the oven for about 12 minutes or until the sweets have melted and the biscuits are lightly golden in colour.
• Leave the biscuits on the baking tray to cool, for 10 minutes.