Dried Cherry Biscuits: Simply daily bake!

 Baking biscuits is one of my life pleasure, well if you love to bake you understand what I say.

It's a simple magic, just cut the fat (whatever it is, butter or shortening) into the flour mixture, add the liquid then knead a bit and cut into pieces. You can make it in less than 30 minutes ^^, and it's always delicious! 

This time I had a chance to try new product (again, haha, thank you so much P'Mic), this shortening is coming from King Rice bran oil company). It made from 100% rice bran oil and it's non-hydrogenated, so it is good for your health than other kinds of shortening.

Because shortening is 100% fat while the butter is about 80-85% fat (the rest is water and milk segment), it's good for making pastry (esp. pie crust or biscuit ^^). 

I use this product in my dried cherry biscuits, but if you don't want to use shortening you can use all butter too, your biscuits will be a bit heavier than mine but it will be delicious too.

Serve it with a cup of tea, you can add jam or cream but I think I like to eat it plain.

Dried Cherry Biscuits

Makes 8 (using 2 inches cookie cutter)

 200g .............................. All purpose flour
1 1/2tsp .......................... Baking powder
1/2tsp ............................. Salt
2tsp ................................. Granulated sugar
45g .................................. Shortening, cold and cut into small pieces
58g .................................. Unsalted butter, cold and cut into small pieces
85ml ................................ Whole milk
50g .................................. Dried cherries, cut into small pieces

Preheat the oven to 220°C (200 °C if using convection oven)

 Put the all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar into a bowl and whisk to combine, then mix in the dried cherries.
Put the shortening and butter into the bowl and use the pastry cutter to cut the fat into the flour mixture until they look like bread crumbs.
Pour the milk into the bowl and mix until moisten.

Turn the dough onto the work surface, folding it 4-6 times or until the top look smooth.
Cut into pieces and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
Bake in the preheated oven for 9-13 minutes or until the top is golden brown.

Dried Cherry Biscuits: Simply daily bake!