Melting Moments
These are melt-in-the-mouth shortbread like cookies sandwiched together with a pink vanilla buttercream.
Servings: 16 Cookies
Calories: 280kcal
Ingredients
Cookies;
- 1 Cup Butter, Softened (220g)
- ½ Cup Icing Sugar (60g)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 and ⅓ Cups All Purpose Flour (165g)
- ½ Cup Cornflour (Cornstarch) (60g)
Vanilla Buttercream;
- ⅔ Cups Butter, Softened (150g)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 and ½ Cups Icing Sugar (300g)
- 1-2 Tbsp. Milk
- 1-2 Drop Pink Food Colouring Gel
Instructions
Cookies;
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
- Beat the butter and icing sugar together.
- Add in the vanilla extract, flour and cornflour and beat until smooth.
- Roll into balls (around 1 tablespoon in size) and place on the baking tray.
- Bake about 15 minutes or until biscuits are a pale-straw colour. Stand 5 minutes before lifting onto wire racks to cool.
Buttercream;
- Beat the butter until smooth.
- Add in the vanilla extract, icing sugar and milk and beat.
- Add in extra milk if the buttercream is too stiff to pipe.
- Add in a drop of food colour until you get a shade of pink you want.
- Either pipe or spread two teaspoonful's of icing on a cookie and sandwich together with another cookie.
- Repeat with remaining cookies.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 280kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 46mg | Sodium: 124mg | Potassium: 16mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 22g | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 1mg