Hazelnut and Chocolate Shortbread Bars

I wanted to do like a poptart with shortbread. I wanted to make a hazelnut and chocolate filling and then dip it into my coffee. So this is exactly what I tried to do!

Hazelnut and Chocolate Shortbread Bars



Ingredients

250g butter
375g plain flour
125g icing sugar
1 egg
1 vanilla bean
150g hazelnuts, chopped finely
200g chocolate, chopped finely

Method

1. In your mixing bowl put the butter

Christmasy Lemon Shortbread Stars

I love these....yum....."it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!!"

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Lemon Shortbread Stars


Ingredients

150g butter, room temperature
75g icing sugar
2 lemons, zest only
2 egg yolks
250g plain flour

Method

1. In a mixing bowl, mix all the ingredients together in a bowl until it forms a paste.

Pastry Tutorial - blind baking

During the week I posted a chocolate tart recipe and Melisssa from Onecraftymumma asked me more information about blind baking!

So I have put together a little tutorial on what to do and how to check you have blind baked your tart enough.

For quiche, frangipane tarts and any other tart that has to have the centre cooked for awhile I don't blind bake it. I don't because the tart shell gets too

Gluten Free Flour and the Sweet Variety

I had a lovely lady by the name of Anna write to me and ask me for the recipe for our Gluten Free Pastry. I could have sworn that I had already put it on here but looking through my files I have talked about it and never put it on here. How rude of me!

Here is also a reminder about the gluten free flour mix. You should now be able to pick up all of these items from your local supermarket. I get