Nesselrod Rounds

250g butter
1 cup caster sugar
1 ½ tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla
Cling wrap

 

 

200g glace cherries
100g walnut pieces
2 cups plain flour
½ cup cornflour
½ cup coconut

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  1. Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl.
  2. Add milk and vanilla and beat further
  3. Fold in cherries, walnuts and flours. Knead gently by hand until the mixture is well combined.
  4. Divide the mixture into 3 fist-sized balls, and shape into fat sausages, about 4cm across.
  5. Lay out 3 strips of cling wrap about 30cm in length, and sprinkle the coconut at one end of each piece of wrap.
  6. Place the sausages of dough onto the coconut, and roll up.
  7. Place the wrapped sausages into the freezer, and freeze hard for at least an hour.
  8. Preheat the oven to 180 oC. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
  9. Carefully cut each sausage into 6mm slices and place the biscuits onto the baking paper. Allow a little space between each one.
  10. Bake for 12 minutes, until barely golden, and remove from the oven.
  11. Allow to cool completely before storing in an airtight container.

 

Makes about 50 to 60 biscuits.

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