Orange Scented Shortbread Bites

Name: Thermomix recipe: Orange Scented Shortbread Bites
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Ingredients: 140 Grams raw sugar (the rougher the better…I used some gorgeous French sugar cubes that are like rapadura lumps….amazing); 1 orange, zest finely grated; 120 Grams orange sugar; 200 Grams unsalted butter cubed; 330 Grams bakers or strong flour; 10 Drops doTERRA wild orange oil; 1 Pinch pink salt flakes

Makes a lot Prep Time 5 minutes Cook Time 15 minutes Rated: Print

Little crunchy nibbles that are perfect for morning or afternoon tea, gifting, or to tide you over until dinner. Fragrant and easy.

This recipe first appeared in For Foods Sake (we still have copies in store) my favourite cookbook still. If you don't have a copy yet, it now comes with an eversion as well. It is still very up to date Thermomix wise, though when the book was created waaaay back when, there was only a TM31 on my bench. How times have changed.

You will find all sorts of other flavoured sugar options in the book. Just imagine the possibilities! There are a couple of rules for adding flavours to sugar. Use really dry sugar. You could even go so far as to follow this method for drying the sugar in our Mini Meringues recipe. After adding your flavour of choice it is a good idea to spread the sugar out on a tray and dry overnight unless using immediately such as in this recipe.

Then go for it;

Lime zest or any other citrus zest

Coffee beans

Brew Choc

Mint leaves

Freeze dried berries

Cinnamon stick

Nutmeg or other whole spices

And of course vanilla or tonka bean!

Have fun!

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Need

Orange sugar
140 Grams raw sugar (the rougher the better…I used some gorgeous French sugar cubes that are like rapadura lumps….amazing)
1 orange, zest finely grated
Shortbread
120 Grams orange sugar
200 Grams unsalted butter cubed BUY
330 Grams bakers or strong flour
10 Drops doTERRA wild orange oil BUY
1 Pinch pink salt flakes BUY

Do

1: 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.
2: Preheat oven to fan forced 180ºC and line a baking tray with paper.
3: Add butter to sugar in Thermomix bowl and chop for 4 sec/speed 6.
4: 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.
5: Roll in remaining Orange sugar. Cut into small rounds, place onto tray and flatten with your thumb.
6: 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 for the foodies in your life!

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Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!