Ingredients
175g (6oz) unsalted butter (softened)
50g (2oz) icing sugar (sifted)
Half a teaspoon vanilla essence
175g (6oz) plain flour
8 or 9 glace cherries, halved
- Cream butter with sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
- Stir in flour.
- Transfer mixture to forcing bag fitted with star-shaped meringue tube.
- Pipe 16 to 18 flat whirls onto buttered baking tray or trays. Put half a cherry onto each.
- Bake at Mark 4, 180°C, 350°F, for about 20 minutes (or until pale gold)
Leave on trays for five minutes. |