100s and 1000s

BY REQUEST! My good friend, Rebecca, has asked for the recipe for the 100s and 1000s biscuits I mentioned here and made for Juliet's party. Michelle makes them regularly and they're a HIT! While Michelle always makes round ones, I made heart shaped ones for Jules' party... what shape today?

The dough has to rest in the fridge for at least an hour before it's rolled out. The dough for the last batch I made was in the fridge for 3 days and they came out great.

Here are a few reasons why you can justify making these:

1. They only have 60g of butter across all the biscuits (= low fat in my book)
2. When you use the 100s and 1000s with natural colouring... you feel like a better mother... (?)
3. They look GREAT!
4. They taste GREAT! and are very more-ish (and they're low fat... aren't they?)

So back to my dilemma (life must be good if this is my dilemma) of what shape to make them. The shapes I'm considering are:

1. heart
2. map of australia
3. foot
4. star
5. small ginger bread man
6. koala

 
We'll see. These biscuits were great at the birthday party as they took the place of Fairy Bread which really is a must for any party celebrating any age. The bread must be good, must be white, the butter must be generous, must be real. And the bread only ever cut in small triangles. It's funny, but from when I was really little I've associated the shape of a cut sandwich with boys, girls, grown ups.

A girl's sandwich is cut in 4 small triangles. Boys have 4 small squares. Mummies eat sandwiches cut into 2 large triangles and Daddies have 2 rectangles. I have NEVER given Juliet a sandwich cut into squares. Just one of those things that makes me a unique individual. Or a little bit odd...

Anyhoo.

This recipe, as I've said, was given to me by Michelle who photocopied it out of a Women's Weekly Biscuit book.

100S AND 1000S BISCUITS

60g butter, soft

1/3 cup caster sugar

1 egg, well beaten

1/2 teaspoon vanilla (well, I use about 1 and a 1/2 teaspoons of the vanilla bean paste)

1 teaspoon of milk (worth it? I don't know, I'm just following instructions)

2/3 cup SR flour

1/2 cup plain flour

200g hundreds and thousands

extra milk

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Turn on oven to 180 deg C.

Cream the butter in a stand mixer and gradually add the sugar. Beat well.

Add egg, vanilla and milk. Combine well.

Add sifted flours gradually and mix until you have a firmish dough. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and put in the fridge for at least an hour (can easily be longer).

Roll out between two pieces of baking paper until about 5mm thick. Cut with cutter of your choice (oooo, what will I choose...??) and put on oven tray.

Brush the top with milk and sprinkle with 100s and 1000s.

Bake for 8-10 mins. Allow to cool on trays.

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Pictures...

Rolling out the dough... 'Hands away!'

Little hands brushing the cut out shapes with milk. I chose the heart, map of aust and man.

So, while the milk is still wet, sprinkle with 100s and 1000s. Yes, its a bit messy.

And then bake them and they come out like this...

Gingerbread man heart Australia. Of course he does.

Let me know how you go when you make them!