ORANGE SCENTED SHORTBREAD BITES

Orange Scented Shortbread Bites

Well kids, 2 recipes in this post really if you include the flavoured sugar. Like I have nothing much to be getting on with right? I have also discovered that retailing can be fun! (Crazy but fun!) So a quickie but a goodie…(aren’t they always the best anyway?)

I love shortbread, little crunchy bites of butter and sugar….what more could one ask for to go with a great cup of Crio Bru or coffee, or tea?

NEED:

Orange Sugar;

140g raw sugar (the rougher the better…I used some gorgeous French sugar cubes that are like rapadura lumps….amazing)

Zest 1 orange

Shortbread;

120g Orange sugar

200g unsalted butter, cubed

330g plain flour

1 tsp orange oil (optional)

Pinch coarse sea salt

DO:

Make the sugar by placing sugar and zest into Thermomix bowl and milling for 8 sec/speed 10. Use 120g in shortbread and reserve the rest.

Preheat oven to fan forced 180ºC and line a baking tray with paper.

Add butter to sugar in Thermomix bowl and chop for 4 sec/speed 6.

Add remaining shortbread ingredients and blend for 10 sec/speed 6. Tip dough out onto floured Silpat mat. Divide into two portions. Roll each into a long sausage shape with a 3-4 cm diameter.

Roll in remaining Orange sugar. Cut into small rounds, place onto tray and flatten with your thumb.

Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden and fragrant. Cool before keeping in an airtight container in fridge for optimum crunch factor!

These are a darling gift when wrapped in lots of cellophane and truckloads of curling ribbon…and as for the sugar, it also is a pretty nice gift…beings that we are in October and do I need to spell it out? Less than 12 weeks until YOU. KNOW. WHAT.