Spicy Pepper Biscuits Recipe

Ingredients:

• ½ tsp Salt
• 225 gms Butter
• 55 gms Cornflour
• 2 tbsp Icing Sugar
• 200 gms Plain Flour
• ½ tsp ground Ginger
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• ½ tsp grated Nutmeg
• ½ tsp ground Allspice
• ½ tsp Vanilla Essence
• 65 ml Whipping cream
• 85 gms ground Almonds
• ½ tsp ground Cardamon
• ½ tsp ground Cinnamom
• 1 tsp grated Lemon Rind
• ½ tsp ground Black Pepper
• 100 gms Light Brown sugar

Method:

1. reheat a 350 degrees F/180 degrees C/Gas 4 oven.
2. Sift the flour, cornflour, baking powder, spices, salt and pepper into a bowl. Set aside.
3. With an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla and lemon rind.
4. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture alternately with the cream, begining and ending with flour. Stir in the ground almonds.
5. Shape the dough into 3/4 in (2 cm) balls. Place them on ungreased baking trays about 1 in (2.5 cm) apart. Bake until the biscuits are golden brown underneath, 15-20 minutes.
6. Let the biscuits cool on the baking trays about 1 minutes before transfering them to a wire rack to cool completely. Before serving, sprinkle them lightly with icing sugar.