I call it biscuit cake – Biscuit round cut into cake like wedges served with fresh berries and jammy sauce.
Really quite simple and definitely delicious!
Hope you enjoy!
Berry biscuit cake
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups plain flour
- 125 g butter chilled, chopped
- 1/4 cup caster sugar
- pinch salt
- 1 egg egg yolk
- 1/4 cup strawberry jam (or your favourite jam)
- 250 g mixed fresh berries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced.
- Place flour in a large bowl. Add butter. Using your fingertips, rub butter into flour into fine crumbs form.
- Stir in sugar, salt and yolk and stir until a dough forms. Transfer dough to a lightly floured bench. Knead dough briefly until smooth.
- Roll dough between sheets of baking paper to form a 23cm round. Mark round into 8 wedges. Prick with fork. Pinch edges of round with fingers to form a decorate edge. Remove top sheet of baking paper. Place dough, on baking paper, on a baking tray.
- Bake for 30 minutes. Cool on tray.
- Combine jam and approximately 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl (water will vary on brand of jam used – you want a thick, but pourable consistency).
- Spoon three-quarters of the jam over biscuit cake. Top with berries and remaining jam mixture. Serve.
- Biscuit cake can be cut into wedges along pre-cut markings or broken as desired.
