Crisp Dessert Recipes - Viennese Fingers Recipe

Ingredients

• 150 g/5 oz/2/3 cup butter

• 75 g/3 oz/1/2 cup icing (confectioners) sugar, sifted

• 150 g/5 oz/1 1/4 cups plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted

• 100 g/4 oz/1 cup plain (semi-sweet) chocolate

• A few drops of vanilla essence (extract)

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Method:

1. Grease two baking (cookie) sheets. Beat 100 g/4 oz/1/2 cup of the butter with 25 g/1 oz/3 tbsp of the icing sugar, then work in the flour.

2. Place in a piping bag with a large star tube and pipe twelve 5 cm/2 in long strips on to each baking sheet.

3. Bake in a preheated oven at 190C/375F/gas mark 5 for 1 0-15 minutes until a pale golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

4. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water or in the microwave. Beat together the remaining butter and icing sugar with a few drops of vanilla essence.

5. Sandwich the biscuits together in pairs with the butter icing, then dip one end of each in melted chocolate.

6. When hardened, dip the other ends in the chocolate. When set, store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.