Ingredients

• 110g - Plain flour
• 75 g - Butter
• 50 g - Ground Almonds with skin
• 1/4 tsp - Bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp - Finely grated orange zest
• 50 g - Caster Sugar
• For the butter cream:
• 60 g - Butter
• 120 g - Icing sugar
• 1 tsp - Grated orange zest
• 1/4 tsp- Orange food coloring( optional).

How to Make Almond Biscuits with Orange Butter cream

• Preheat the oven to 160 degree Celsius.
• Sift the flour and soda, add the ground almonds in a large bowl and mix well.
• Now add the diced butter to the mixture and mix until it's coarse.
• Now add the sugar, knead it into a dough.
• Now roll out the dough to a 1/2" thickness and place it between two sheets of baking paper.
• Now cut out the cookies with a cookie cutter and place in a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Now cool on a wire rack.
• To prepare the butter cream, add the softened butter to a bowl, and then add the sifted icing sugar, food colouring and grated orange zest, and mix into a smooth paste.
• Pipe the cream with a star nozzle on the cookie and sandwich with the other cookie.
• Serve with tea.