The easiest biscuits you can bake
Usually at the store and where I am from, this type of biscuits is marketed under brands like Monde. These buttery biscuits are crumbly and so delicious that you can’t stop eating them. Usually they are sold inside tin with various shapes and some even have some coatings on them.
There’s a joke where I am from that grandma used to store knitting tools inside these biscuit tin and it all gives us childhood trauma.
I used to think baking these viennese whirls biscuits would be challenging until I tried it. This recipe that I make yields about a tray of biscuits and is perfect for 3-4 servings. Back in the day my mom used to make swirls biscuits but it has a certain distinction with my recipe and they are only served during big celebrations.
But now, with this recipe, you don’t have to wait until any big celebration just to enjoy these biscuits. All the ingredients I use are affordable and you can have it at any time too.
Ingredients
100 gr of plain flour
100 gr margarine/butter
25 gr caster sugar
25gr corn starch
3gr of vanilla extract
3gr of a salt
How to’s
- Beat the margarine until smooth
- Add the caster sugar, vanilla extract and salt
- Sift the plain flour and cornstarch until combined
- Make sure the dough is properly combined, smooth and easily to be piped.
- Use a piping tools to shape them.
- Bake for 15 minutes in a 200C using a gas oven and less with electric oven just until the edges are set.
- Cool and coat with chocolate of your preference.
- Serve and enjoy!
Some additional notes
You can also use butter and that’s even more close to the original recipe as this is known as buttery biscuits. However, if that is an expensive ingredient in your area, you can use margarine for cookies and cake. Where I am from we have a certain brand that is good for butter substitute and that’s something I often use other than butter.
Also, it’s very important to use the scale. I can’t stress this enough but having to fail many times making cookies and baking, a scale helps you measure everything and receive the consistency that you want. There are many recipes that I have modified including this one.
When I learn to bake and try to learn recipes online, they are always using too much flour and have this mindset that we’re going to serve a whole block. The thing is, you can always make smaller batches of them and they would taste the same & when I was still new to baking, I made this newbie mistake by following the measurement of all the famous bakers and patissiers. You can safely guess, they are failed recipes and I was being so wasteful.
Compared to these days with just 100 gr of plain all purpose flour, I can make these heavenly biscuits. And that also helps me keep track of what I eat pretty easily too as I know exactly what goes into the ingredients.
That goes without saying, if you want to master baking in just a month. The shortcut is basically using a scale, scale down your ingredients and try different stuff
With this Viennese Whirls biscuits you can bake this and impress anyone you want to. It’s so affordable as there’s no egg involved in this recipe. You can even say this recipe is a dupe of your favorite store brand's favorite biscuits. They taste very similar and crumbly too. Without a good self control, I honestly would finish them in one go 😂
Hope you get to try them at home!
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