Week 10: Biscuits - Walnut Crumbles

This week I am going to make Walnut Crumble biscuits which is going to be a completely new recipe for me. I had never heard of Walnut Crumbles before and I did a search in Google to see if there were any other Walnut Crumble biscuit recipes and nothing came up.  The recipe looks very simple so it will be interesting to see how these biscuits turn out.

The mixture

First I beat the softened butter with the caster and demerara sugar using a wooden spoon until the mixture became soft and smooth.

The sugar-butter mixture

In a separate small bowl I beat the 1 egg with 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract and then added it to the butter-sugar mixture. I sifted 250g of self-rising flour into the bowl and gently mixed all of the ingredients together.

The combined ingredients

The final step was to fold 85g of chopped walnuts into the mixture.

The final walnut mixture

I lined two baking trays with baking paper and rolled small amounts of the mixture into balls. I put 12 balls of mixture onto each tray, placing them far enough apart so that the biscuits would have space to spread out while being baked. I gently flattened down each ball with a fork and sprinkled chopped walnuts over the top of each biscuit.

The biscuits ready for the oven

I put the trays into a preheated oven set to Gas Mark 4 and baked them for 10 minutes until the biscuits became a light golden colour.
Once I removed the biscuits from the oven I left them to firm up on the baking tray for a few minutes before transferring them onto a wire rack.  My first set of biscuits were rather bite size, so for my next batch of Walnut Crumbles I made sure the mixture balls were a bit bigger.

The baked Walnut Crumbles

The verdict

These very simple biscuits were truly delightful and tasted like shortbread just with added walnuts. This week it was a nice change to make a recipe that did not require many of hours  of work in the kitchen as the Walnut Crumbles only took me about 30 minutes to whip up. These biscuits were a big hit with my family and got polished off very quickly as they were rather addictive!!!

Next Week's Baking Challenge:

Cheese and Onion Tear and Share Loaf