Iced VoVo Biscuits
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Recipe type: Biscuits/Cookies
Cuisine: Australian
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Serves: 40
 
An Iced VoVo biscuit/cookie that's edged with stripes of marshmallow covered in coconut and with a stripe of raspberry jam down the centre.
Ingredients
  • 125g butter, softened
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1⅓ cups plain flour
  • 1⅓ cups self-raising flour
  • For the marshmallow:
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 1½ tbspn gelatine
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • pink food colouring
  • To decorate:
  • 1 cup raspberry jam
  • ½ cup desiccated coconut
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 180C (375F).
  2. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
  3. Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between additions. Add vanilla and mix to combine.
  4. Stir in the flours.
  5. Lightly dust surface with flour and turn dough onto surface. Knead gently until smooth (about a minute).
  6. Roll out dough to about 4mms thick.
  7. Make a template 4cm x 5cm. (I used a thick piece of cardboard). Use the template to guide the size of each biscuit. Cut around the template and make 40 biscuits.
  8. Place biscuits on baking trays and bake for 10 minutes or until lightly brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on trays before shifting to a wire rack.
  9. For the marshmallow:
  10. Place sugar and water and gelatine in a small saucepan over low heat. Whisk lightly to ensure there are no lumps in the gelatine. Bring to the boil then allow to simmer for 3-4 minutes.
  11. Remove from heat and place in a mix master. Allow to cool (about 30 minutes).
  12. When cool, beat at high speed until the volume has significantly increased and the marshmallow is light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla extract and pink colouring.
  13. To assemble:
  14. Place marshmallow into a large piping bag with a wide star nozzle. Working quickly (because the marshmallow sets quickly), pipe the biscuits along each long side with marshmallow. Sprinkle piped marshmallow with coconut and shake off excess. Using a smaller piping bag with a smaller nozzle, place jam in piping bag and pipe a raspberry jam stripe down the centre of each biscuit.
  15. Store biscuits in an air-tight container.
  16. And now for the clean-up...
Recipe by Hotly Spiced at https://hotlyspiced.com/iced-vovo-biscuits/