Cheese Pastry Biscuits
These Cheese Pastry Biscuits are ideal for snacking on and great for buffets, picnics, after school snacks and whenever else you need a cheesy treat.
Ingredients
- 300 g white spelt flour
- 250 g cold butter, cubed
- 90 g grated Italian hard cheese
- 6 g sea salt
- 2 tbsp chopped rosemary
- 2 egg yolks
GLAZE
- 1 beaten egg white for brushing
- Fleur de sel
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (conventional oven)
- Line 1–2 baking trays with baking parchment.
- Place the ingredients for the dough in the Stand Mixer bowl and work into a crumbly pastry dough using the flat beater (speed setting 2–4).
- As soon as the dough is mixed, roll it out to a thin layer (approx. 7 mm) between two sheets of cling film and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- After removing from the refrigerator, use a round cookie cutter to cut out circles and place the circles on the baking trays.
- Then gather up the remaining dough and roll out again.
- Repeat until all the dough has been used up.
- Brush the circles with the egg white and sprinkle with a little fleur de sel.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven for 14–16 minutes.
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