Gluten-free cranberry and white chocolate star biscuits
This fantastic gluten-free biscuit recipe from Howard Middleton makes gorgeous flavour-packed snacks for any time of year, full of cranberries and finished off with white chocolate and colourful freeze-dried cranberry powder.
Ingredients
- 230g of rice flour, plus extra for rolling
- 120g of potato flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp xanthan gum
- 110g of unsalted butter , cut into cubes and chilled
- 150g of caster sugar
- 3 tbsp of dried cranberries
- 3 tbsp of freeze-dried cranberries
- 1 large egg , beaten
- 4 tbsp of honey , (or use 2 tbsp honey and 2 tbsp syrup from a jar of stem ginger)
- vanilla , star anise or bergamot extract (a few drops), or replace with a little orange zest if you prefer
To decorate
- 2 tbsp of cranberry powder , optional
- 50g of white chocolate , melted
Equipment
- 10cm pastry cutter
Method
1
To begin, put the flours, bicarbonate of soda and xanthan gum in a large mixing bowl and rub through the butter until there are no lumps visible. Stir in the sugar and cranberries
2
Mix the egg with the honey and vanilla extract and add this to the bowl, stirring with a knife then kneading it together by hand to form a ball. If you have time, wrap in cling film and chill for about 30 minutes to firm up
3
Preheat the oven to 190°C/gas mark 5 and line your baking sheets with baking parchment
4
On a floured surface, roll out the dough to about 6mm thick and stamp out stars up to 10cm in diameter. Transfer to the baking sheet and bake for about 12–15 minutes until golden brown (the biscuits will firm up a little more on cooling)
5
When the biscuits are cold, drizzle with melted chocolate (you can mask off some of the biscuit with a palette knife or strip of foil) and dunk the edge into a little freeze-dried cranberry powder
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