Gluten Free Viennese Whirls
Day 11 – Eleven Pipers Piping
Ingredients
- 200g soft butter
- 65g icing sugar
- 60g cornflour
- 175g gluten free plain flour
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon xanthan gum
Ingredients for filling
- 100g butter
- 180g icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or any flavour you choose)
- 10 teaspoons of strawberry jam
Method
- Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and icing sugar to a large mixing bowl until pale and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and bet it in for a minute.
- Sift the flour, xanthan gum, cornflour and gluten free baking powder and fold them into the butter and sugar using a metal spoon. Spoon the mixture into a piping bag with a large star nozzle.
- Onto the lined baking sheet, pipe 10 x 5cm in diameter circles, leave space between them to allow to spread. Tip: pipe from the centre outwards.
- Bake for 8 minutes until golden. Take out of the oven and cool completely.
- For the filling: using an electric mixer beat the butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract until smooth. Spoon into a piping bag with plain nozzle (or use a teaspoon of filling for each one.
- Take one biscuit and turn upside down. Spread 1 tsp of jam onto the biscuit, the buttercream in a swirl. Place the second biscuit on top (swirl-side-up) and very gently press gently to create a sandwich. Do this until all the biscuits are used up.
- If not using the biscuits straight away, make the biscuits and store in an airtight container, then fill them just before serving.
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All recipes are created by Frances Buckley MSc.
Licenced food safety trainer. MSc in Applied Culinary Nutrition.
Currently Technical Food Advisor at Coeliac Society of Ireland.
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