Lemon Viennese Biscuits Recipes

VIENNESE BISCUITS

Steps:

• Beat butter and sugar till pale.
• To quicken it up slightly, beat over a bowl of hot water but not too much it shouldn't be runny Sift in flour.
• Put mixture in a large star piping bag and pipe as you want.
• Tradionally this should be tubes or whirls.
• Chill for 15 minutes.
• bake 10 minutes at 190°C.
• They should not be brown, they stay pale.
• When cool-- melt some chocolate, I use a mixture of 70% cocoa butter and ord.
• milk use a small deep container (egg cup is good).
• dip each tube or whirl in chocolate.
• lay on baking parchment and set in fridge.
• Great to serve with ice cream or my.
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VIENNESE WHIRLS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment. Put the butter and icing sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric hand whisk for about 5 mins until pale and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and beat again until fully incorporated.
• Sift in the flour, cornflour and baking powder, and fold into the mixture using a spatula until combined (the dough should have a tacky consistency). Spoon the dough into a piping bag fitted with a large star-shaped nozzle. If all the mixture doesn't fit, do it in 2 batches.
• Pipe swirly circles 5cm diameter onto 2 baking sheets making sure there are 3cm spaces between each swirl.
• Bake for 10-12 mins, swapping the trays over halfway through the cooking time so the biscuits are evenly baked, until pale golden and cooked through. Leave to cool on the baking sheets for a few mins, then transfer to wire racks.
• While the biscuits cool, make the filling. Put the softened butter in a large mixing bowl and add the icing sugar. Stir together initially with a wooden spoon then switch to electric beaters or a whisk to get the buttercream fluffy and smooth. Add the vanilla extract and beat once more to combine. Transfer the buttercream to a piping bag and snip off the end.
• Turn the biscuits over so their flat side is facing up then pipe buttercream over half of the biscuits and spread a little jam on the rest. Sandwich a jam covered biscuit together with a buttercream one and repeat until all the biscuits are used up.

LEMON VIENNESE TARTS

Steps:

• Put all the cake ingredients in a mixer or food processor and process until soft.
• Put the mixture into a piping-bag with a 1 inch fluted nozzle and pipe into 12 paper liners placed in a bun tin, using a circular movement.
• Bake in a pre-heated oven 350F until pale in colour.
• Transfer to a wire cooling rack.
• When cool, sift the icing sugar over the tops, and put a little lemon in the centre of each tart.