Biscuits: Iced, Layered Shortbread

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    40

    Biscuits
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

  • About

Try lots of fillings. Why not lemon curd, chocolate nut spread or dulce de leche? The cut-out centres in different shapes could be turned into mini biscuits, or re-rolled.

Ingredients

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan 160°C/350°F/gas mark 3½.

On a floured board, roll the dough out to about 3mm thick and, using the 6.5cm round cutter, cut 40 shortbreads. Cut a central shape - round, heart, star or blossom - from the centre of half the batch, using