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Melting Moments

By Chelsea Sugar
Melting Moments
18 servings
  • 7 reviews

  • Difficulty Moderate
  • Prep time 20 mins
  • Cooking time 15 mins
  • Serves
    18
Ingredients

    250g butter, room temperature
    ⅓ cup Chelsea Icing Sugar, sifted
    1¾ cups plain flour
    ¼ cup cornflour

    FILLING
    80g strawberries, hulled, chopped
    ½ cup Chelsea Caster Sugar
    1 Tbsp water
    80g butter, at room temperature
    ½ cup Chelsea Icing Sugar
    Chelsea Icing Sugar, for dusting

Method

    Melting Moments: Preheat oven to 160°C conventional. Line 2 oven trays with baking paper.
    Using an electric mixer, beat butter and icing sugar until pale and fluffy. Sift in flour and cornflour and stir until combined.
    Roll 2 tsp of mixture into a small ball and place on tray. Flatten with a lightly floured fork, making an indent. Repeat to make 36 biscuits.
    Bake for 15 minutes or until golden. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

    Filling: Put strawberry, caster sugar and water in a saucepan over a medium heat and stir until sugar dissolves and it comes to the boil.
    Simmer 2 minutes then pour syrup through a sieve into a jug and leave to cool. Discard strawberry pieces.

    Beat butter and icing sugar until pale and fluffy. Add cooled strawberry syrup, 2 Tbsp at a time, beating continuously until smooth and soft.

    Spread a little filling over 18 of the biscuits, then sandwich with remaining biscuits. Dust with extra icing sugar to serve.

    Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

    Tip: Swap strawberry syrup for 2 Tbsp fresh passionfruit juice.

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Reviews

Average Rating
47
(7 reviews)


Easy straightforward recipe. I made these for a little girls birthday party so added pink colouring, changed the shape and softly pressed with a flower design instead of a fork & used basic butter cream for filling. Looked and tasted amazing!! Thank you Chelsea.

Made these for the first time, went well with Gluten Free flour, didn't bother about the strawberry filling, just did plain vanilla filling. I made the balls half the size. They looked really stunning alongside other sweets served at a High-Tea event. The biscuits are super fragile when cooked. Best filled when stone cold.

The metric to USA measurement conversions are incorrect. This caused them all to melt in the oven. I’m an experienced baker, I trusted the measurements. Do not recommend this recipe to USA bakers. I’m giving it one star.

This recipe is the best of the best

Really delicious, perfect texture in the biscuits! It did make too much icing but we ended up using the leftovers for something else. Overall very amazing

These taste great
thanks Chelsea :)

These are amazing.

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