These easy shortbread cookies are fun to make and pecan nuts are packed full of antioxidants too!
Okay, so I'm not pretending that putting a pecan nut on top of a biscuit is going to make it healthy, but it's important to encourage our kids to try new flavours. With a milder taste than walnuts, pecans add a delicious crunch to these easy shortbread biscuits. Nearer Christmas, they'd make great gifts wrapped in celophane and tied with a ribbon too. If you don't like pecans, try almonds or even glacé cherries, or vary the topping with white chocolate.
Ingredients
140g plain flour
30g cocoa powder
115g butter
50g golden caster sugar
Pecan nut halves
Method
Sift the flour and cocoa powder together. With clean hands, rub in the butter (it's best to encourage the children to just use the tips of their fingers!).
Add in the sugar, then get stuck in and squeeze the mixture together until it forms a dough. Roll out to about 1/2 cm thick and cut out shapes with a cutter, or just cut into squares with a knife.
Place on a non-stick baking tray and gently press a pecan nut half into each shortbread.
Bake for ten minutes at gas mark 3/180 degrees C.
Leave to cool on the tray, then drizzle with melted chocolate.
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11 November, 2011
I can honestly say that everytime I see one of your posts pop up, I start salivating :-) These sound delicious and they are also going on "the list".
Leigh
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30 November, 2011
Ah fantastic! Like you say not mega healthy but - we're all allowed treat right?! ;) .. and actually, the nut choice on the top gives them protein; the butter - a little bit of calcium and some calories for burning off during their (and our) jam-packed day; and the flour gives us a touch carbohydrate for energy!
So, all in all - not that unhealthy really and for me it has the added bonus of being fairly 'eco' as I don't have to look further than my cupboard and fridge for the ingredients. Just have to find time to make them now - I'm sure I'll squeeze them in somehow though!
Yum.. Thanks, English Mum!
Sue
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