Cardamom Shortbreads.
You can Have Cardamom Shortbreads using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Cardamom Shortbreads
- It's 8 of cardamom pods.
- It's 200 g of butter.
- Lets Go Prepare 25 g of ground rice.
- Lets Go Prepare 240 g of plain flour.
- What You needis 70 g of icing sugar.
- What You needis 1 of beaten egg.
- Lets Go Prepare of demerara sugar, for rolling.
- Lets Go Prepare of vanilla sugar for dusting.
Cardamom Shortbreads step by step
- Lightly crush the cardamom pods to release the seeds, discard the shells and put the seeds into a mortar. Crush finely with the pestle..
- Place the butter, ground rice, flour and icing sugar in a food processor and mix until you have a dough..
- Turn the dough out onto the work surface and push with your hands into a roll, about 3-4 cm in diameter. Wrap in plastic film and place in the fridge for an hour. Chilling is an important stage, don't rush it, otherwise the shortbreads will spread too much when they're cooking..
- Take the roll out of the fridge and remove the film. Brush with beaten egg and roll in demerara sugar. Place back in the fridge for another 30 minutes..
- Preheat the oven to 150°C/Gas 2. Take the roll out of the fridge and cut into thin slices, about 5mm thick, and place on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment. You could cut the roll in two and store the other half in the fridge for baking another day. I used half the roll and it made 13 biscuits..
- Sprinkle a little vanilla sugar over the top of the biscuits and bake for around 15 minutes on a low shelf. I think the secret of getting these shortbreads crisp is to make sure you don't cook them too quickly, and that they bake to a pale golden colour..
- Cool on a wire rack and don't store in a jar or a tin until they are completely cold..