Burnt Butter Biscuits

[em]

Burnt Butter Biscuits

I got this from Julie on the Today show the other week.  Its a really quick and easy biscuit recipe and you could add whatever you like to it, sultanas, choc chips, jam, etc.

Ingredients
125g butter
1/2 cup sugar - 110g
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup SR Flour or Plain Flour and 1 tsp baking powder - 220g

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

Place butter into TM bowl and melt at varoma temp speed 1 for 20 mins, you want the butter to go a golden brown colour.  Let it cool for 5 or 10 mins.

Add sugar and egg, at this point I also used the butterfly to whisk up the egg.  Mix it for approx 5 sec at speed 4.  

Add the vanilla and flour and mix til combined and nice and shiny, about 5 sec.

Use about 1 tsp of mixture and roll little balls of dough and bake in oven til golden brown which took about 5-7 mins in my oven.

Very quick and easy and next time I make themIi will be using my home made apricot jam to make jam drops!

members' comments

JD - What a great little recipe this one is, thanks a lot em for posting it.  How many biscuits did you get?  Mine were obviously bigger than yours as I had to bake them 10 minutes then left them on the tray to cool and crisp up - it made 34 cookies.  I did a mixture of jam drops, then topped some with flaked almonds and then mixed some chocolate chips into the last of the mixture - 3 different cookies from 1 batch.  Looks like I've been to the Cookie Man shop.

em - JD I think I made about 30, they could have been smaller. mmm sounds good, I will try the jam drops next I think.

willmac -  they are soooooo good and half of them have already been eaten.

Amanda - they are lovely, but I had the devil of a time getting the butter to burn. I cooked it in the TM, eventually on Varoma temp, for 9 minutes, finally pouring the whole lot out into a saucepan and burning it on the stove before proceeding with the recipe.

faffa70 - they are a hit with the family - yay another one for the bikkie barrel and the recipe into the keeper file. I also had a hard time getting the butter to brown. I ended cooking it on varoma temp for 10 minutes. It wasn't burnt as such but was a nice golden brown by then. I can handle the 10 minutes when I don't have to stand there and stir it and watch it like a hawk - I can do a lot else in 10 minutes lol.

em - I ended up doing the same thing faffa the second time I made these and just got it nice and golden brown, I guess it's a little hard to burn things in the tmx!!

mrsmac - I love this recipe, made them while the kids were asleep and would've got 34 if they didn't wake up at the end of me putting them on the trays, I did half and half with apricot jam and choc chips kids loved the uncooked mix, and already dd2 has given the thumbs up for the choc chip ones.

CP - I dug out my recipe from "Country Classics" which I have always doubled. I wonder if there is any difference in the browning of the butter depending on brands/quality?

This is the quantities used:

250g butter
250g sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
310g SR Flour

Melted butter at Varoma, Speed 1, 29 minutes (just do not burn the butter). Followed em's method thereon, and placed a blanched almond in the centre. I made 40 decent size biscuits.

I used to make it the conventional way on the stove top, however after cooking for 10 mins on Varoma I just had to keep going until I was satisfied that the butter had changed colour. I doubled the recipe, so perhaps this has something to do with the longer time or maybe difference between butter quality (?), but I know it used to take forever on the stove too and that's why I always double the recipe to make it worthwhile. I just love these biscuits.

[Very Happy Jan]

Thanks Em. I'm always looking for quick biscuits recipes for my boys to make. This one sounds very versatile. Well done

[judydawn]

What a great little recipe this one is, thanks a lot em for posting it.  How many biscuits did you get?  Mine were obviously bigger than yours as I had to bake them 10 minutes then left them on the tray to cool and crisp up - it made 34 cookies.  I did a mixture of jam drops, then topped some with flaked almonds and then mixed some chocolate chips into the last of the mixture - 3 different cookies from 1 batch.  Looks like I've been to the Cookie Man shop 

For those of your who work in metric - sugar is 110g and flour is 220g

[Thermomixer]

Thanks em for publishing the conversion.  Love the flavour of burnt butter.

Thanks JD for the metrication.

[em]

Judydawn i think i made about 30, they could have been smaller. mmm sounds good, i will try the jam drops next i think.
no worries thermomixer, glad to contribute! 

[cookie1]

A delicious, easy recipe. Thanks Em and Judy.

[willmac]

Thanks so much for this, I just made these today and they are soooooo good and half of them have already been eaten.

Kay

[Amanda]

Burnt Butter biscuits are a very old fashioned type of biscuit.  My long-dead aunt used to make them and I just love them
Thanks for a recipe that I had completely forgotten about.

[Amanda]

I just made these and they are lovely, but I had the devil of a time getting the butter to burn.
I cooked it in the TM, eventually on Varoma temp, for 9 minutes, finally pouring the whole lot out into a saucepan and burning it on the stove before proceeding with the recipe.

[faffa_70]

Made these yesterday and they are a hit with the family - yay another one for the bikkie barrel  and the recipe into the keeper file 

I also had a hard time getting the butter to brown. I ended cooking it on varoma temp for 10 minutes. It wasn't burnt as such but was a nice golden brown by then  I can handle the 10 minutes when I don't have to stand there and stir it and watch it like a hawk - I can do a lot else in 10 minutes lol

[em]

i ended up doing the same thing faffa the second time i made these and just got it nice and golden brown, i guess its a little hard to burn things in the tmx!!

[bron]

Em or JD, do you leave the butterfly in, after mixing in the egg, so adding the flour with the butterfly in place?
These sound very easy and interesting!

[judydawn]

No I took it out before adding the flour Bron - I read it as just using it to beat the egg.  Em could perhaps clarify this point for you.

[faffa_70]

I took it out too  - only because I didn't want to try and clean the dough off the butterfly - too lazy lol 

[em]

i dont think it would matter to much, i left in , but not for any real reason! i just like using it to whip up the eggs really...