I stumbled upon this recipe from Serious Eats earlier, and it looked intriguing - by which I really mean that it appealed to my lazy side. Active time 10 minutes, total time 25 minutes, and to be entirely done in a single bowl? Sounds good to me! This is roughly 3/4 proportions, but with a bit more flour than suggested in the original recipe, because sticking accurately to their amounts gave me a batter rather than a dough.
Quick dark brown sugar biscuits
Ingredients
- 150g Butter
- 210g Soft dark brown sugar
- 15g Caster sugar + 40g for coating
- 3g Salt
- 1 Egg
- 1tbsp Vanilla extract
- 250g Plain flour
- 1tsp Baking powder
- 1/2tsp Bicarbonate of soda
Method
- Melt the butter.
- Mix in the sugars and salt.
- Stir in the egg and vanilla.
- Stir in the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
- Divide dough into small golf-ball sized pieces.
- Pour the sugar for coating into the now-empty bowl and roll the pieces of dough in it to coat.
- Squash the dough balls to flatten slightly, and place on lined baking trays.
- Bake at 180C for ~10mins.
Here they are ready for the oven. I know they're going to merge together - but I'm too lazy to spread them out over a third tray (after all, it's laziness that got me this far, so I might as well roll with it!).
Yup, they merged together. I don't care though - I think they actually form quite a pleasing geometric pattern like this. They look pretty good, don't they?
I added a little too much salt, so they came out ever so slightly salty - not awfully so though, and actually the slight saltiness adds a bit of interest. But the biscuits themselves are actually pretty good! In terms of tastiness-per-effort, these are definitely a big success!
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