These crispy little cheese biscuits are puffy and light, and so simple to make. The perfect cheesy snack that everyone will love!
If you make this dough into a fat roll, and wrap it well in baking paper and then in foil, you can freeze it and cut off slices whenever you want a few cheese biscuits for a snack or to accompany a vegetable soup. The frozen roll will need to soften for about 30 minutes before you can slice into it.
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- 100g tasty cheese, grated
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
- 150g butter (at room temperature)
- tiny pinch of salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne
- pepper
- 2 tablespoons cream
- 175g plain flour, sifted
Method
Quickly blend the cheeses, butter, salt and cayenne pepper in a food processor. Add the cream and pulse to mix. Add the sifted flour. Pulse briefly until the mixture starts to form into a dough.
Tip the dough onto your workbench and shape into a rough log about 5cm in diameter.
Place a sheet of aluminium foil on your workbench and line it with a sheet of baking paper. Put the log onto the baking paper and roll it up. To make a tight log, twist each end of the foil tightly to force the mixture together
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Line a baking tray with baking paper. Thinly slice as many biscuits as you want to cook with a sharp knife and transfer them to the baking tray. Bake for 10–15 minutes until golden. Cool on a wire rack and then store in an airtight tin.
Tips:
Unsliced dough should be rewrapped and frozen straightaway. The dough can be frozen for up to a month.
A note on flour: I have chosen to measure flour by weight rather than cups, unless the result doesn’t depend on an exact amount. Precision is important when baking. Sometimes it is straightforward to convert a weight measurement to cups, but sometimes it is not and disappointment can follow. One cup of flour weighs 150g.
Recipe taken from The Cook’s Apprentice by Stephanie Alexander.
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