PT - your tea cakes

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PT, I was finishing my Christmas baking last night (all of which has

now left the house, so I don't eat it all) and had to fill in some

space in the trays... so I made the Russian tea cakes you posted -

they were awesome! They came out really well even with whole wheat

pastry flour (I don't have any white flour). I made one batch as you

listed, and the second batch I added a teaspoon of cinnamon to the

dough, and rolled them in cinnamon/powdered sugar. They perfectly

with my trays, as every thing was brown & white - choc. cinnamon

crisps cut out into tree shapes, tiramisu eclairs, then the white tea

cakes and the cinnamon teacakes.... it ended up looking really pretty! :-)

 

Oh, btw, I also did them completely in the food processor. Whizz the

butter etc., then add the flour and whizz til it comes together. Scoop

out little balls with a tiny ice-cream-type scoop. Really fast and

easy, and I really appreciated that last night! :-)

 

Thanks,

Amy

 

PS I ended up using the karo syrup in the icing for the choc. cinn.

crisps - it took a while to completely dry,but when it did it was

really hard, good enough to not break up in travel.