Belgium biscuits recipe (jam filled iced cookies) (2024)

A delicious spiced cookie filled with jam and topped with sweet icing. The perfect sweet treat with a cup of tea.

Belgium biscuits (or Belgian biscuits)

I’m quite a visual person.

With my sewing,

I’ve never followed a pattern, I prefer to eye it out or ‘copy’ an item that I already have.

I like IKEA’s assembly instructions that are all images rather than something telling me to put the left thingimy on top of the right thingo making sure it lines up with the thingedybob on top.

I’m no different when it comes to recipes.

Sometimes no matter how clear the instructions might sound to someone else, without a visual, I’m unlikely to create anything resembling the original.

These Belgium biscuits were a victim of lack of visual aid.

Though they tasted great, they’re not exactly what the cook book author had in mind when they wrote the recipe.

At least now you can make them how they’re meant to be.

What do you need to make Belgium biscuits

To make this delicious German biscuit you will need:

• Butter– softened (the pure stuff)
• Brown sugar– here’show to make brown sugarif you don’t have any
• Egg– at room temperature
• Plain flour– also called all purpose flour
• Baking powder
• Ground cinnamon
• Ground ginger
• Mixed spice
• Cocoa

ICING/FILLING

• Icing sugar– here’s how to make your own icing sugar
• Strawberry essence– you could use vanilla if you can’t get strawberry
• Red or pink food colouring
• Water
• Strawberry or raspberry jam

How to make Belgium biscuits

I always like to measure out my ingredients before I start baking.

That way I don’t forget anything.

Start by lining a large oven tray (or two trays) with greaseproof paper.

Butter and sugar

Place butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and cream together using the paddle attachment.

Alternatively you could use a wooden spoon to cream butter and sugar together.

Scrape down the sides with a spatula and add the egg then beat it through.

Take the bowl off the stand and sift in the dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, cocoa and spices.

Then you can either put it back on the stand and mix it all together or use a spoon.

You could have guessed that I used the mixer.

Mix it until the dough comes together in the middle.

Turn the cookie dough out onto a lightly floured surface and shape the dough into a ball.

It was easiest to work with half of the dough at a time as it was quite a firm dough, so I cut it in two and set one piece aside.

At this stage you could also shape the dough into a disc and wrap in plastic wrap (aka cling wrap) and refrigerate or freeze for later.

The dough at this stage smells rather amazing. It took a little bit of control not to nibble a bit off.

Use a floured rolling pin to roll dough out to about 3mm thickness then cut out rounds with a 6.5 cm biscuit cutter.

I thought I’d go a bit fancy and use the cutter with a scalloped edge but you can use a round cookie cutter.

I wasn’t sure the dough would hold the shape while baking so I tried one out before I cut them all like this.

It actually kept it’s shape really well so would be another good recipe to use for shaped biscuits liketea bag biscuits.

Place the dough rounds on the prepared baking trays leaving just 2cm between each one.

They don’t really spread at all.

Bake the biscuits at 180C fan-forced for 15 minutes or until they are golden.

Leave them to rest on the trays for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile make the pink icing.

Mix icing sugar, essence and pink food colouring with a little hot water until it becomes spreadable icing.

Start with about a tablespoon of water and add a little at a time.

If it gets too runny, add more icing sugar.

Transfer the golden brown biscuits to a wire rack to cool completely.

Now here is where my lack of visual aid got me into a bit of trouble.

The recipe simply said ‘ice half of the biscuits and coat the un-iced biscuits with jam.’ Re-reading it now, I can totally see what it’s meant to mean.

A finished biscuit should go biscuit, jam, biscuit, icing.

I had in my head that the icing and jam were the filling.

I turned them all over, spread half the insides with jam and half the insides with icing then sandwiched them together.

As the end result still tasted the same as what they should have, I dusted them with icing sugar and pretended that’s exactly what they were meant to look like.

The combination of spices, cocoa, icing and strawberry was quite a treat.

Enjoy!

What about you?

Do you need to see things to work out how to do them or are you ok with written instruction?

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Belgium biscuits

Yield: 18-20

Ingredients

Biscuit

• 125g (4.4oz) butter, softened
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 cups plain (AP) flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp cocoa

Icing

• 3/4 to 1 cup icing sugar
• 1/4 tsp strawberry essence
• a few drops of red food colouring
• water

Filling

• 1/2 cup strawberry jam

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C(356F) fan-forced.
2. Line two baking trays with baking paper or grease them.
3. Beat the butter and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer.
4. Add the egg and mix it through.
5. Scrape down the sides and mix again then add the sifted flour, baking powder, cocoa and spices and mix until the dough comes together.
6. Lightly flour a work surface and roll the dough out until it is 3mm thick.
7. Use a 6.5cm cookie cutter and cut out rounds of dough.
8. Place them on the lined baking trays leaving 2cm between each one.
9. Bake the biscuits for 15 minutes or until golden.
10. Leave the baked biscuits on the tray for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
11. Meanwhile make the icing by adding a little water at a time to the icing sugar, essence and colouring until it is thick but spreadable.
12. When the biscuits have cooled, spread half with icing.
13. Spread the other half of the biscuits with jam and place the iced biscuits on top of the jam covered ones.
14. Sprinkle with icing sugar to serve.