Spiced Lemon Shortbread
Sugar, spice and everything nice is what these treats are all about! Melt-in-your-mouth texture is combined with bursts of lemon and mixed spices to brighten up any occassion.
Serves
4
Cooking Time
30 mins
Cuisine
International
Ingredients
- 200gm all-purpose flour
- 220gm planta margarine
- 100gm custard powder
- 100gm castor sugar
- 1tsp ginger powder
- ½ tsp cinnamon powder
- Zest from 2 lemons
- 1 tsp lemon essence
Instruction
- Mix and sift flour, custard powder, spices and zest together.
- Incorporate the margarine into the flour mixture.
- Add lemon essence.
- Form the dough.
- Divide dough into 4 equal parts.
- Wrap each part in a plastic tightly.
- Refrigerate dough for an hour or two.
- Remove one part of the dough at a time (to avoid dough getting too soft and difficult to handle).
- Roll dough lightly on a marble slab dusted with flour to about 1 ½ cm thickness.
- Use a cookie cutter and shape them.
- Bake them at 180°c for 12 minutes.
- Roll them in sugar if you desire.
