Tuesday 3 May 2016

Mauritian Napolitaines (biscuits with jam filling and coated with icing )

Ingredients for the biscuits: 400g of flour (all-purpose), 250g softened butter (cut into small square pieces), ½ teaspoon icing sugar, ½teaspoon salt.  You will also need jam for the filling.
Method: Sieve the flour with the icing sugar and salt. Then, add the cubes of softened butter gradually, do the rubbing-in method with all the mixture. (Meaning you work out the dough ONLY with your fingertips and thumbs take small amounts of the mixture and rub them together. (If you don’t know about rubbing-in method, google it so that you can do it properly and your dough will be a nice one). Moreover, keep rubbing in until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. When the mixture is well incorporated, bring everything together to form a dough. Then roll the dough to a thickness of about 1 cm (not to thick, not too thin). Then use a cookie cutter or anything to make any shape u want. Place a greaseproof paper on a baking tray. Place each biscuits on the tray. Bake at 170°c for 10 minutes. Don't let it become Brown; it should be '' beige'' in colour. 
You should do even number of biscuits, as you will need to pair them later on after you add the jam filling.
Once baking is done, place the tray aside. Leave to cool. Meanwhile, prepare the icing for the biscuits topping. 
For the icing (glaçage): you will need 300g of icing sugar, a little bit of water, and red food colouring. (Or you can use any colour you want for the food colouring).

Method for the icing: Mix well; it should have a cream-like texture. It should not be too liquid, not too thick. Hence, i add very little amount of water. I add more icing sugar, so that the icing when mixed with little amount of water can be of an appropriate texture in covering the biscuit.When done with the icing, take one biscuit, add a teaspoon of jam (whichever fruit jam you like) and take another biscuit, stick both together with the jam.  Take a rack, place the biscuit on top, and pour over your icing, or you can simply take your biscuit and dip it in the icing mixture.  Leave them on a rack to cool.
You are done! You can make these on any occasions. They taste divine.


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