Alright folks we are cooking with whatever stuff I did up out of the cupboard.
Think you can’t bake? Wrong. It’s not hard. I’ll show you.
Today I have a bunch of margarine I need to use up, leftover from New Years, so going to make
And you can tweak this recipe fairly easily to make it allergy friendly. This version happens to be dairy and egg free, but if you’ve got plain gluten free flour you could make it gluten free too. Whatever you’ve got in your cupboard in these trying times.
First assemble the Avengers:
1/2 cup of icing sugar (aliases include: powdered sugar, confectioners sugar)
225g of margarine (or a little more is ok. Or use butter at room temperature if that’s what you’ve got)
2 & 1/4 teaspoons of vanilla essence or extract.
2 cups of plain flour. You could use white, wholemeal or gluten free if that’s what you’ve got
Jam of choice. Or chocolate chips if you don’t like jam
Got everything? Pop the margarine and icing sugar into a bowl.
Beat it with an electric mixer for a minute or two until it’s all combined and fluffy. You can also do it by hand if you’re some sort of master chef.
Add your vanilla and mix in. I know it says 2 & 1/4 teaspoons but I never measure it and just follow my heart.
Mix in the flour and salt, any old spoon is fine, doesn’t have to be electric, until you have a soft dough. Should stick to itself fairly well.
If too sticky, add a little more flour. If not sticky enough, add a little milk-of-choice or a touch of water.
You need to be able to roll the dough into little balls. Should feel a lot like playdough, but taste a lot better.
(And yes, you can eat these raw. No eggs, see?)
Then press your thumb into the middle of each ball, to make the notorious ‘thumb print’. That’s the bit you fill up with your favourite jam, or chocolate, or lemon curd, or I guess you could even try caramel or m&m’s.
Bake at about 170 degrees Celsius (that’s about 350F for yankie heathens) for about 18 minutes until golden.
The jam comes out like lava. Let them cool a little bit before you eat them or serve to the unsuspecting.
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