Hazelnut Biscuits – The X-Factor Substitute
Posted: 29 September '09 by Niall
Hazelnut biscuits
With Kelly glued to another episode of X-Factor on Sunday evening (with so much crying going on, the contestants must be in serious danger of de-hydration), I was at a bit of a loose end. Looking through the cupboard I saw that we had plenty of stuff for doing some baking – and with a little help from Nigella Lawson I came up with Hazelnut Biscuits.
The only down-side is that they really don’t take too long to make – you’re looking at three batches to last an x-factor show..
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Ingredients
- 150g of hazelnuts
- 30g of icing sugar, and some more to dust the biscuits at the end
- 125g of soft butter
- 90g of plain flour
- pinch of salt
Method
- Heat the oven to 175C
- Empty the hazelnuts into a frying pan, and heat over a low heat until the toasted hazelnuts give off a nice, nutty aroma – and before they start to burn!
- Blitz the nuts in a food processor until they are quite finely ground and looking like breadcrumbs
- Empty the food processor into a bowl
- Add the icing sugar to the food processor and blitz to remove any lumps – then add the flour, salt, and butter, pulsing until the ingredients are well mixed
- Add the hazelnuts and pulse – you’ll probably need to use a plastic spatula to ease the mixture from the edges and pulse again
- Line an oven dish with grease-proof paper
- Take a small amount of the mixture and roll in your hands until you have a smooth ball of dough about the size of a gobstopper
- Place the ball of dough onto the grease-proof paper and press down lightly so that the dough spreads into a flat disc
- Repeat this for the remaining dough
- Place in the oven for 15 minutes
- Remove the oven tray and leave to rest for a few minutes – the biscuits will be a little fragile – then take a spatula and ease the biscuits off the tray and onto a cooling rack
- When the biscuits have cooled, sieve some icing sugar oven the biscuits until they are well dusted
Other Information
We ate our biscuits with a drizzle of honey and dipped into Greek yoghurt – all I’ll say is that you should DEFINITELY give it a go!
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When are you going to make these again?!! Yummm