Recipe: Perfect Bakewell Cookies

Bakewell Cookies.

You can have Bakewell Cookies using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Bakewell Cookies

1. You need 125 g of butter (softened).
2. It's Tsp of almond extract.
3. Prepare 250 g of caster sugar.
4. You need 125 g of soft brown sugar.
5. You need 1 of egg.
6. It's of Pot of glace cherries.
7. Prepare 100 g of ground almonds.
8. Prepare 50 g of marzipan.
9. It's 150 g of self raising flour.
10. It's Handful of flaked almonds.
11. Prepare 125 g of icing sugar.

Bakewell Cookies step by step

1. Cream together the almond extract, butter and both sugars in a large bowl.
2. Add the egg and mix well..
3. Pour the whole pot of glace cherries into a small bowl and cut them up smaller with a knife..
4. Add into the bowl the flour and ground almonds along with the chopped cherries.
5. Grate the marzipan over the top to add some extra almond flavour!.
6. Preheat the oven to gas mark 2/ 150C. Line two large baking trays with greaseproof paper..
7. Mix everything together with your hands until you make a dough. This is one to roll your sleeves up for!.
8. Roll the dough into small balls around the size of a golf ball and place onto a baking tray.
9. Using the back of your hand push them down to flatten slightly.
10. Sprinkle a few flaked almonds onto each biscuit.
11. Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes. You may need to rotate halfway to ensure equal cooking!.
12. Wait until the biscuits have cooled slightly to make the icing. Then mix together 125g of icing sugar with another splash of almond extract and then enough water to make it into a smooth icing consistency..