Prep
45 minsBake
15 minsServes
8Difficulty
Medium About
A classic tea time treat has to be shortbreads, but this summer berry shortbread with a fruity, sweet-spiced hint makes a divine delight at a summer garden party.
Cream the butter and Tate & Lyle Demerara Sugar together in a bowl, then gradually add the flour, semolina or ground rice and salt, mix and then lightly bring the mixture together with your hand.
Turn the dough out on to a floured surface, knead lightly and then wrap in cling film and chill for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 170°C/Fan 150°C, 325°F, Gas 3.
Roll the shortbread dough out thinly to about 3mm (⅛”) on a lightly floured surface and stamp out rounds with the cutter, rerolling to get 24 circles. Place on the baking trays, leaving a space between each and sprinkle all over with the Tate & Lyle Demerara Sugar.
TOP TIP
You will also need a 8cm (3¼”) round cutter and 4 baking trays lined with parchment paper.
Bake on the top and middle shelves of the oven for 15-16 minutes or until very pale golden, swapping the trays over halfway through. Cool a little then carefully lift off to a wire rack to cool completely. Arrange a shortbread on 8 plates.
Lightly whip the cream until starting to thicken, then add the elderflower cordial and whisk again until soft peaks form. Divide half of the cream between the shortbreads, spreading to the edges, scatter over half of the berries and then repeat with another layer. Finish with a final layer of shortbread then decorate the tops with raspberries, blueberries and redcurrants, lightly dust with the Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar and serve.
TOP TIP
Use real, unsalted butter instead of a spread where possible as this gives shortbread is renowned, crumbly texture.
Ingredients – 5 items
1
FOR THE SHORTBREAD
Unsalted butter
Softened
Unrefined Demerara
(extra for sprinkling)
Plain flour
(extra for rolling)
Semolina
Or ground rice
Salt
A pinch
FOR THE TOPPING
Double cream
Elderflower cordial
Strawberries
(hulled & thinly sliced)
Raspberries
(extra for decoration)
Blueberries
(extra for decoration)
Redcurrant
(extra for decoration)
Fairtrade Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar
(to dust)
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Believe it or not, custard slices actually hail from Australia!
A delicious vanilla custard block hidden between two crisp puff pastry slices (dusted with plenty of Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar!)
If you`ve not made one before, we suggest you rectify it ASAP!:
Ingredients
Pastry
3 Tbsp. Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar for dusting
500g Block Puff pastry
60g Flaked Almonds
Custard Filling.
140g Tate & Lyle Pure Cane Caster Sugar.
750ml Whole Milk
250ml Double cream
1/2 Vanilla pod Halved lengthways seeds removed
90g Corn flour
25g Custard Powder
3 medium Egg Yolks
1 Gelatine Leaf
Method.
Heat the oven to 200c/180fan/Gas6.
Divide the pastry into two and roll out half on baking parchment to 25x 25cm. Scatter over half of the almonds pressing them gently into the pastry and then sprinkle with Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar. Cover with another layer of baking parchment and another baking tray and on this place a weighted object like a square casserole dish filled with baking beans, to keep the pastry flat.
Bake for 30/35 minutes until a crispy golden brown.
Remove from the oven take off the baking weights remove the parchment and allow to cool. Repeat the process with the other half of the pastry. Allow both to cool completely.
Put the gelatine in a bowl of cold water to soften.
Mix the corn flour with the custard powder and approx. 6 tbsps. of the milk, add to the pan with the rest of the milk, the vanilla pod and seeds, Tate & Lyle Pure Cane Caster Sugar, cream, whisk over a low heat to ensure no lumps appear, after a couple of minutes whisk in the egg yolks and keep heating until the mix is thick and smooth. Remove the vanilla pod and gelatine form the water and whisk into the custard and heat for a further minute.
Line the base and sides of a 20cm square cake tin with baking parchment. Trim one square of pastry to fit in the tin almond side down.
Spread over the custard evenly. Trim the other square into eight rectangles and sit them on the custard almond side up. Gently press down onto the custard. And chill overnight.
Slice & Dust with icing sugar and serve with fresh raspberries. Enjoy!
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This fruity and subtly spiced recipe is deliciously posh nosh that goes down beautifully with a cup of tea or coffee. (Especially if there`s some Tate & Lyle Sweetener in your brew!)
Follow the recipe here:
INGREDIENTS:
200g Tate & Lyle Caster Sugar
175g Butter
3 Large Eggs
1 Large Pear (cored and finely diced)
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
175g Self Raising Flour
2 tsp Cinnamon
For the Lemon Frosting
150g Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar
1 Lemon (zested and juiced)
METHOD:
Cream the butter with the sugar, then beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a small amount of flour after each addition. Then add your vanilla extract, diced pear and the remaining flour and cinnamon. Mix well!
Grease your savarin or bundt cake tin well and spoon in the mixture.
Bake at 180ºC/160ºC Fan/Gas 4 for 25-30 minutes.
Check the cake is fully baked by inserting a skewer if it comes out clean it is cooked, if gooey allow a further 5 minutes.
Mix the icing ingredients together. When the cake has cooled remove from the tin and drizzle over the icing.
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Link in bio for the recipe.
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Yes it`s here, National Tea Day and the ideal time to share one of our favourite shortbread recipes using fragrant Earl Grey tea.
Here`s how to make Earl Grey & Lemon Shortbread:
Prep Time – 30 mins (4 hours to chill)
Yield – 12 – 16 (dependant on the size of your cutters)
Ingredients
Biscuits
50g Tate & Lyle Fair Trade – Pure Cane Icing sugar
250g unsalted butter
2 tbsp of Earl Grey Tea
220g plain flour
Pinch of salt
Icing
A squeeze of lemon
100g Tate & Lyle Fair Trade – Pure Cane Icing sugar
Instructions
Combine your tea leaves and butter, leaving overnight preferably to infuse. You can cover in a bowl and leave to the side as this mix shouldn’t be chilled.
Add your butter mix to a bowl your sugar and combine, then add the flour salt until a dough forms
Roll out your dough mix until even – about half an inch thick and cut with your biscuit cutter.
Pop onto a baking sheet and into a preheated oven at 180°C/ 160°C fan/ gas mark 4/ 350°F and bake for 15 mins. Keep and eye on them as they can burn quickly.
Whilst they cool make your icing and then drizzle generously once the biscuits are completely cold.
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