Nigella Lawson

Maple-Pecan Biscuits

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    35

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

#47How to be a Domestic Goddess
How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

  • About

I made these in a flush of excited inspiration with the maple extract I’d bought at the super-deli Dean & Deluca in New York, but since exotic flavourings – and for us, I think this counts as exotic – are more and more available over here, I thought I would include the recipe.

Ingredients

  • 250 g unsalted butter, softened
  • 125 g light muscovado sugar
  • 1

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3.

Cream the butter and sugar. When you’ve got a soft, supple mass, add the maple extract and work in the sifted flour. Roll into walnut-sized balls, and press with the base of a glass that you’ve lightly oiled (and if you’ve got some in the h