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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 Melting Moments 15g Recipe makes 25 Melting Moments)
Calories 76
Calories from Fat 41		(54%)
Amount Per Serving		%DV
	Total Fat 4.7g	7%
	Saturated Fat 2.9g	14%
	Monounsaturated Fat 1.2g
	Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
	Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 12mg		4%
Sodium 32mg		1%
Potassium 8mg		0%
Total Carbohydrate 8.0g		2%
	Dietary Fiber 0.2g	0%
	Sugars 3.5g
Protein 0.7g		1%
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An Autumn Sunday Afternoon Tea in an English Cottage

French Tart

Original Be-Ro Melting Moments-Afternoon Tea Biscuits or Cookies

Recipe #290314 | 30 min | 15 min prep | add private note

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By: French Tart
Mar 5, 2008

These are great little "light as a feather" and meltingly crisp English style biscuits, or cookies. This recipe is the slightly adapted recipe from the Be-Ro Flour cookbook - they suggest lard, but I don't "do" lard! Melting Moments ALWAYS made an appearance on my grandmother and mum's afternoon tea table, and we also had them popped into our lunch boxes for school. The recipe is SO easy to rustle up and they stay crisp and fresh for up to 5 days in an airtight tin. You can roll them in coconut or oats, I prefer coconut - but I am sure they would be just as nice with oats, which is a suggested alternative. Children and "big children" love these, and they really are melting moments, great with a cuppa English tea!

25 -30 Melting Moments (change servings and units)

Ingredients

5 ounces soft butter or soft margarine
3 ounces caster sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla essence or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 ounces self raising flour
desiccated coconut or oats
glace cherries

Directions

1
Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease two baking trays.
2
Cream the butter or margarine with the sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla essence or extract.
3
Stir in the flour and mix well.
4
Roll walnut sized pieces of the mixture into balls and toss in rolled oats or desiccated coconut.
5
Cut each glace cherry into quarters, for quarter for each melting moment.
6
Place on baking trays, flatten slightly and place a small piece of cherry on each biscuit. Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown but NOT dark brown.
7
N.B. To help shape "ball" type biscuits, slightly dampen the hands.

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From: Baby Kato

On Dec 28, 2008

These were delicious. We enjoyed them very much. They were quick and easy to make, with great flavor and texture. I loved the addition of the coconut and cherrys. Thanks for sharing mon ami.

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From: **Jubes**

On Dec 2, 2008

Reviewed for Australian NZ Forum Recipe Swap Nov 08* Very easy to make and my family have enjoyed them. Sorry that I didn't get a photo for you. Nice presentation with the cherry on top

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From: Kate in Katoomba

On Feb 14, 2009

I hadn't made these biscuits since school cookery lessons. The beauty of these biscuits is that you usually have these ingredients to hand, so can whip up a batch in a very Martha Stewart way ... anyway, I used butter, not lard and rolled the biscuits in oats and they were delicious. I would suggest that you leave your cooked biscuits to harden on the cookie tray. Many thanks for reminding me of this delicious recipe.

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From: Gerry

On Dec 31, 2008

A wonderful recipe for Melting Moments - a touch different then one I have been making and so good that it has been added to my holiday collection. Obviously did the conversion right as they were wonderful on the Boxing Day sweet tray. Used real vanilla and the coconut. Thank you for sharing - Melting Moments are prefect for holiday entertaining - as well as along with that quiet cuppa.

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