Biscuits of Hope
Thankyou to @jilliansfarmhouse for the story and this delicious shortbread recipe!
It is from Anzac that my inspiration of making blue biscuits came from. Anzac day marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and NZ forces during World War One and commemorates all the conflicts that followed. Anzac was also a biscuit we were brought up on. These iconic biscuits were originally made to send to the ANZACs (Australian & NZ Army Corps) serving in Gallipoli. My idea is why don't we make blue biscuits to honour all of our amazing heroes serving in the health sector and all the other essential services that we really cannot do without, hence the blue colour. The heart shape is to represent the hearts of all of these wonderful heroes and also to remember the people that we have sadly lost during this time.
Post them and tag #biscuitsofhope let's see if we can all make as many biscuits of hope as we can.
Ingredients
250g butter
1 cup icing sugar
1 cup cornflour
2 cups plain flour
Queen Blue Gel Food Colour 15g (available from New World)
Cook's Note: Blue food gel colouring will give you a brighter true blue, whilst liquid blue food colouring will give you a more greeny / teal colour. If you don't have blue gel food colouring you can just cut your cookies to the heart shape, you will still have deliciously golden biscuits of hope!
Method
Mix/cream the butter and icing sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy.
Now add the blue colour! Keeping adding until you have the colour you need.
Sift cornflour and flour together.
Mix sifted ingredients into creamed mixture and knead well, if a little dry I do add a little more butter.
Tip out on a lightly floured board roll out to 0.5 cm thickness. Cut into heart shapes and place on greased oven tray or line with baking paper as I do.
Bake at 150 deg C for about 24-30 minutes or until pale golden. Makes about 30.
Lets get these biscuits of hope and thankfulness made.
