Homemade Kingston Biscuits
Homemade Kingston Biscuits are a deliciously crunchy sandwich cookie with a milk chocolate ganache. Easy, golden and if you make the ganache beforehand, they're ready in 30 minutes!
Servings: 16
Ingredients
Coconut Cookies
- 115 g butter at room temperature
- 115 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp golden syrup
- 1 egg yolk
- 170 g plain flour
- 25 g desiccated coconut
- pinch of salt
- ½ tsp bicarbonate soda
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
Chocolate Filling
- 130 g milk chocolate, chopped or use good quality milk chocolate buds
- ¼ cup cream
Instructions
Chocolate Filling
- In a double boiler, heat the chocolate and cream, gently stirring to create a smooth ganache (see notes)
- Allow the ganache to cool and thicken -this will take around 30 minutes. In the meantime, make the cookies.
Coconut Cookies
- preheat oven to 180° C/350° F or 160° FF
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar. 1-2 minutes on medium-high speed is enough (you don't want too much air in the mixture)
- Add vanilla, golden syrup and egg yolk, then mix until combined.
- Add combined sifted dry ingredients and mix on low until just combined
- Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop out the dough and roll into balls
- Place dough balls onto a lined baking sheet, leaving space for them to spread a little
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, until lightly golden
- Cool for a few minutes, then transfer to a cake rack. When completely cool, you can fill them with the chocolate ganache
- When the ganache is thick enough to hold it's shape, briskly stir it with a spatula, then pour into a piping bag fitted with a round (alternatively, just snip the end off a piping bag).
- Pipe a generous amount of ganache onto the underside of one cookie, pressing together with a second cookie to sandwich
Notes
- A double boiler can be made by placing a heat-proof bowl on top of a small saucepan of simmering water. The bowl should not touch the simmering water.
- Golden Syrup is a thick inverted sugar form the UK and Australia. It is a light treacle that can be substituted for honey, but the flavour will be more subtle
- Heat the golden syrup in microwave for about 15 seconds before measuring -this will make it thinner and easier to handle