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Original Be-Ro Melting Moments-Afternoon Tea Biscuits or Cookies

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These are great little "light as a feather" and meltingly crisp English style biscuits, or cookies. This recipe is the slightly adapted recipe from the Be-Ro Flour cookbook - they suggest lard, but I don't "do" lard! Melting Moments ALWAYS made an appearance on my grandmother and mum's afternoon tea table, and we also had them popped into our lunch boxes for school. The recipe is SO easy to rustle up and they stay crisp and fresh for up to 5 days in an airtight tin. You can roll them in coconut or oats, I prefer coconut - but I am sure they would be just as nice with oats, which is a suggested alternative. Children and "big children" love these, and they really are melting moments, great with a cuppa English tea!

by French Tart·published 2008-03-05

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Servings

(25–30)

Total time

30 min

prep 15 min

Calories / serving

77 kcal

Ingredients (6)

serves

5 ounces soft butter or 5 ounces soft margarinemargarine
3 ounces caster sugarsugar
2 teaspoons vanilla essence or 1 teaspoon vanilla extractvanilla
5 ounces self raising flourself-raising-flour
desiccated coconut or oats
glace cherriescherry

Instructions (7 steps)

01Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease two baking trays.
02Cream the butter or margarine with the sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla essence or extract.
03Stir in the flour and mix well.
04Roll walnut sized pieces of the mixture into balls and toss in rolled oats or desiccated coconut.
05Cut each glace cherry into quarters, for quarter for each melting moment.
06

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