Melting Moments
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5.0
3 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
30 mins
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Cook Time
30 mins
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Total Time
50 mins
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Servings
12 cookies
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Course
Dessert
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Cuisine
New Zealand
Melting Moments
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Melting moments are small shortbread cookies with a cream filling, frequently flavored with lemon or orange, that are popular in New Zealand.
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Ingredients
For the cookies
- 14 tablespoons butter (soft)
- ½ cup icing sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
For the lemon cream (or orange cream)
- 4 tablespoons butter (soft)
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest (or orange zest)
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (or orange juice)
Equipment
- Stand mixer
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
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Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat a convection oven to 320F / 160 (or 350F / 170C traditional).
- Sift the flour, cornstarch, and ground ginger together.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the butter and icing sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add the sifted flour, cornstarch and ginger.
- Knead quickly until forming a homogeneous mixture.
- Divide the dough into 24 equal pieces and roll them.
- Place them, well spaced, on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Gently press each ball with a fork to flatten them slightly.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
- The top of the cookies should be pale, but the bottom should be lightly golden.
- Let stand on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring them to a baking rack to cool them completely and stuff them.
Lemon or orange cream
- Beat together the butter, lemon (or orange) zest and icing sugar.
- Add the lemon (or orange) juice to give it a spreadable consistency.
- Spread this cream on half of the cooled cookies.
- Cover each cookie coated with cream with all of the remaining cookies.
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