Recipe: Delicious Bakewell Cookies

Bakewell Cookies. 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? Do not bake for longer as the cookies will become too brittle once cooled. As soon as the cookies are baked remove from the oven. This recipe for Cherry Bakewell Cookies uses a small amount of both marzipan and cherries. I love the thriftiness of it.

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. You can cook Bakewell Cookies using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bakewell Cookies

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

Biscuits inspired by my favourite cake, a Bakewell tart and so it was born - Cherry Bakewell Biscuits. 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. We baked the flavors of the traditional English dessert Bakewell Tart into a bar using Pillsbury pie crust, raspberry preserves and a sweet dusting of powdered sugar.

Bakewell Cookies instructions

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..

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