Essentials South Africa

PARADISE BITES

‘GIN & TONIC’ BISCUITS

MAKES 16 BISCUITS READY IN 45 MIN

2 dried juniper berries
250g flour
50g ground almonds
½ tsp baking powder
85g icing sugar
90g butter
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
60ml milk

For the icing

60g icing sugar Drop of lemon extract Drop of yellow food colouring

1 Grind juniper berries in a pestle and mortar. In a food processor, blitz the crushed juniper berries together with the flour, ground almonds, baking powder, icing sugar and butter. Add the egg, vanilla and milk, and pulse until the mixture comes together to

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