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over a year ago
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Oh good luck. They can so easily turn into soft 'bendy' tubes! lol
Not had a lot of luck getting them just right. They usually end up bendy or like 'shrapnel' lol
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Mary Berry's own recipe.
Ingredients
For the brandy snaps
55g/2oz butter
55g/2oz demerara sugar
55g/2oz golden syrup
50g/1¾oz plain flour
½ level tsp ground ginger
½ tsp lemon juice
Preparation method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Line two baking trays with baking parchment then oil a thickish handle of a wooden spoon and lay it on a cooling rack.
Measure the butter, sugar and syrup into a small, heavy-based pan. The easiest way is to measure the butter, then the sugar on the scales (in the pan if you have digital scales), then measure the syrup on top to make up to 165g/6oz total weight.
Heat gently until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved. This will take about 15 minutes over a low heat. Don’t let the mixture boil as it may crystallise. To check when the sugar has dissolved, stir occasionally, pulling the spoon across the bottom of the pan until you can no longer hear the gritty granules being scraped along and most of them have disappeared.
Leave the mixture to cool slightly, about 2-3 minutes, then sieve in the flour and ginger. Pour in the lemon juice and stir well to mix thoroughly. Drop four teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto each of the prepared baking trays to make neat circles, about 10cm/4in apart.
Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 10-15 minutes, or until the mixture is well spread out, looks lacey and is a dark golden colour. Once baked, you need to work fast to shape the brandy snaps, so its easier if you bake one tray at a time. Remove each tray from the oven and leave for a minute or so to firm up slightly, then lift from the baking parchment using a fish slice. The mixture needs to be just firm enough to remove, but pliable enough to shape. Check by releasing around and under the edges with a small palette knife.
Quickly roll a circle of the warm mixture around the handle of the wooden spoon, having the join underneath. Press the join lightly together to seal, then slide the brandy snap off the spoon and leave it to firm up on the wire rack, again with the join underneath. If any of the circles on the sheet harden too much to work with, put them back in the oven for a few seconds to soften again. Repeat until all the mixture has been used. If the mixture in the pan becomes too firm to drop in neat spoonfuls, roll a teaspoonful of it into a small smooth ball in your hands, sit it on the baking tray and flatten slightly with your fingers. When cold, store the brandy snaps in an airtight tin or container; they will keep for at least a week. |
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"No but if you wanna make a lovely chocolate fudge cake the answer would have been yes!"
Making one of those too, slong with
Choc caramel squares
Ice slice,
Fancy trying something different, and brandy snaps came to mind, injected with cream |
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I've got my nan's old recipe for brandy snaps somewhere! And cherry pie, chocolate cake and gooseberry fool!
Never made a single one of them though - I'm too impatient and just hit asda!!  |
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"I've got my nan's old recipe for brandy snaps somewhere! And cherry pie, chocolate cake and gooseberry fool!
Never made a single one of them though - I'm too impatient and just hit asda!! "
Well if you find em, share the love and sendem to me, love baking |
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"injected with cream
I'm biting my tongue.
Was just thinking that myself! Lol 
Glad i'm not the only one..  "
Trying very hard to be good today, you lot have shown the naughty seed now lol. |
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"injected with cream
I'm biting my tongue.
Was just thinking that myself! Lol
Glad i'm not the only one..
Trying very hard to be good today, you lot have shown the naughty seed now lol. "
Us??? Surely not!!!! |
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"injected with cream
I'm biting my tongue.
Was just thinking that myself! Lol
Glad i'm not the only one..
Trying very hard to be good today, you lot have shown the naughty seed now lol.
Us??? Surely not!!!! "
Yes obi, was trying soooo hard too being gown up and everything, |
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"Off you all go to the naughty step, minute for every year, corrupting poir jules 
What if you live in a bungalow?? 
Or a flat !!"
Surely you'd be spoilt for 'step' choice? Lol |
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"Off you all go to the naughty step, minute for every year, corrupting poir jules
To be fair you were the one who injected cream and followed up with the use of the word seed... "
Ok I will admit I did, I conseed xx |
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