How to Make Perfect Bakewell Cookies

Bakewell Cookies. Crisp edged and chewy middled almond flavoured cookies stogged full of candied cherries and topped with flaked almonds prior to baking. You finish these moreish beauties with an almond drizzle icing. What's NOT to love about these! British bakes don't get much more retro than the Cherry Bakewell tart. Why not try our exciting spin on this classic, reinventing it as moreish cookies, topped with flaked almonds and jewelled glacé cherries, for a gorgeous afternoon treat?

Cherry Bakewell Cookies sliced and ready to bake. This recipe for Cherry Bakewell Cookies uses a small amount of both marzipan and cherries. I love the thriftiness of it. You can have Bakewell Cookies using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Bakewell Cookies

1. You need 125 g of butter (softened).
2. You need Tsp of almond extract.
3. You need 250 g of caster sugar.
4. You need 125 g of soft brown sugar.
5. You need 1 of egg.
6. It's of Pot of glace cherries.
7. It's 100 g of ground almonds.
8. You need 50 g of marzipan.
9. You need 150 g of self raising flour.
10. Prepare Handful of flaked almonds.
11. You need 125 g of icing sugar.

Very similar in texture and cooking method to my Sunshine Cookies recipe - The joy is in the eating and how quick these cookies come together. Be warned, this is a very sticky mixture. Along with my almond extract the idea hit me. Biscuits inspired by my favourite cake, a Bakewell tart and so it was born - Cherry Bakewell Biscuits.

Bakewell Cookies step by step

1. Cream together the almond extract, butter and both sugars in a large bowl.
2. Add the egg and mix well..
3. Pour the whole pot of glace cherries into a small bowl and cut them up smaller with a knife..
4. Add into the bowl the flour and ground almonds along with the chopped cherries.
5. Grate the marzipan over the top to add some extra almond flavour!.
6. Preheat the oven to gas mark 2/ 150C. Line two large baking trays with greaseproof paper..
7. Mix everything together with your hands until you make a dough. This is one to roll your sleeves up for!.
8. Roll the dough into small balls around the size of a golf ball and place onto a baking tray.
9. Using the back of your hand push them down to flatten slightly.
10. Sprinkle a few flaked almonds onto each biscuit.
11. Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes. You may need to rotate halfway to ensure equal cooking!.
12. Wait until the biscuits have cooled slightly to make the icing. Then mix together 125g of icing sugar with another splash of almond extract and then enough water to make it into a smooth icing consistency..

They are incredibly moreish and Hubby & I are trying not to eat them all in one sitting, and yes they do taste like the hallowed Bakewell. Bakewell Bakery Inc. in Flossmoor, Illinois specializes in traditional English foods and British baked goods. I just couldn't resist making them - because the idea of the flavours of a Bakewell tart put into a Blondie is just an all round win in my opinion! Almond and Jam… a delicious combination. Usually there is a pastry base, a jam layer, and almond filling, and decoration on top.