Before I started this blog I rarely made any desserts at all but inspired by so many delicious treats I see around the blogosphere, I have been more sweets, including a few baked goodies. Typically, I try to make our desserts in small portions and keep them relatively healthy and low in fat. Today's treat, however, is quite rich, involving real butter and cream. These pastries, inspired by traditional Croatian plum jam biscuits, are incredible and totally worth an occasional splurge. To make these, I used the "00" flour and the SiGi Jam of Wild Little Plums from the Sausage Debauchery and vanilla sugar from MarxFoods.
Ingredients: (makes about 12 biscuits, recipe adapted from SBS Food website)
1/2 stick butter, room temperature
3/4 cup cream
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 cups "00" flour
SiGi jam of Wild Little Plums
Directions:
Mix butter, cream, vanilla sugar and baking powder. Slowly add flour to make a soft, stretchy dough. Knead for 5 minutes. Roll dough out thinly and cut into long triangles with a pizza cutter or sharp knife.
Place one teaspoon of jam at the wide end of the triangles and roll each one forward into a U shape.
Bake at 400°F about 15 minutes or until golden.
