Shortcrust Jim-Jam Biscuits
A childhood favourite recipe has been given a delicious, buttery twist. Make the classic jim-jam biscuits with shortcrust pastry using the jam of your own choice.
Ingredients
- 240 grams All-Purpose Flour
- 1/4 tsp Baking Powder
- 120 grams Salted Butter cold
- 2 tbsp Honey/ Powdered Sugar
- 5-6 tbsp Water ice cold
- Jam of own choice to be used for filling the biscuits
- Granualted Sugar for garnish
- Icing Sugar for garnish
Instructions
- In a bowl, add all-purpose flour, baking powder and mix it.
- Cut the butter in little cubes as smaller pieces will blend faster. Add the butter in flour mixture.
- Using your finger tips, gently rub the butter in the flour mixture till it resembles a crumbly texture.
- Add, honey and Ice cold water to the mixture.
- Start kneading the mixture till it comes together as a soft dough.
- Wrap the dough, using a plastic wrap or a cling wrap and chill the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Take the dough of the refrigerator. Lightly dust your work area with flour.
- Roll out the shortcrust dough using a rolling pin. Keep lifting the dough and dust flour under the rolled dough if it sticks too much.
- Roll the dough thin roughly to ¼ inch thickness. Using cookie cutters of your choice, cut the biscuits.
- One a tray lined with parchment paper, Place the biscuit on the tray little away from each other.
- In alternate biscuit, cut out the centre using back ofpastry nozzle. This is to make pair of the biscuit.
- Using the fork prick the biscuits a bit so that the biscuits don’t puff up too much.
- Bake the biscuits at 180 degree celcius for 15-20 minutes or till baked with slight brown colour.
- Cool the biscuits completely. Spread jam of your choice on the biscuit with uncut center. Sandwich it with the biscuit that has its centre cut out.
- Sprinkle some granulated sugar on the jam. Dust the biscuits with icing sugar. The jim-jam biscuits areready!
Notes
- Chilling the dough helps in resting the gluten in the dough. Which will further avoid shrinking of the biscuits during baking.
- Once you have cut the biscuit, you can put them in the refrigerator for 10 minutes before baking. This is helpful in getting crispier biscuits.