Children's favourite homemade bourbon biscuits!
Ingredients for the biscuits
- All-purpose flour (maida): 1 cup
- Butter: 3 tbsp
- Desi ghee: 2 tbsp
- Cocoa powder: 2 tbsp
- Powdered sugar: 1/4 cup
- Milk: 3 tsp (at room temperature)
- Baking powder: 1/2 tsp
- Vanilla essence: 1/2 tsp
- Salt: a small pinch (skip the salt if you use salted butter)
- Granulated sugar, to sprinkle
Ingredients for the cream
- Butter: 2 tbsp
- Cocoa powder: 3 tbsp
- Powdered sugar or castor sugar: 3 tbsp
- Milk: 1 tsp
Mix all the cream ingredients together except the milk, then add milk as needed. Do not make the cream too loose, or it will squeeze out from between the biscuits.
Method for the biscuits
- Put the butter and ghee in a bowl. Add the sugar and beat until the mixture becomes light.
- Sift the all-purpose flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into the same bowl.
- Add the vanilla essence and 2 tsp of milk.
- Mix everything together to make a smooth dough. Add a little more milk if needed.
- Keep the dough in the fridge for an hour.
- Take the dough out of the fridge and roll it out with a rolling pin between sheets of butter paper.
- Cut the biscuits into long rectangles. Prick holes on top with a toothpick.
- Sprinkle some granulated sugar over the biscuits.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 12 minutes.
- Let the biscuits cool completely.
- Spread the cream between 2 biscuits and press gently.
Your bourbon biscuits are ready! This recipe makes about 12 biscuits. Enjoy them with hot ginger tea or coffee.
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