Caraway Seed Cake

 A close friend of mine, who lives in my building, cooked us Mutton Dhansak for dinner on Navroze, and brought it over. It was absolutely delicious. I had to return her utensils, so I decided to bake a seed cake for her family. So, that's what my daughter and I did, Friday evening. It was great fun and I am so glad I baked a small one for my family because the beautiful aroma of the Caraway seed toasting in the oven was wafting through the house and tickling by taste buds.

Spring Jam Sandwiches

Spring Jam Sandwiches

Makes 25 to 30 cookies

Ingredients

Plain flour – 150 grams

Butter – 150 grams

Caster sugar – 100 grams

Almond meal – 150 grams

Finely grated zest of 1 lemon

Lemon juice – 1 tsp.

Any Fruit jam or preserve (pineapple, marmalade, berry)

Method

Beat softened butter and sugar in a bowl. Fold in the flour, almond meal and lastly the zest. Divide dough in half. Cling wrap, flatten and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll out dough to 3mm. Use a 4 cm flower shaped cookie cutter to cut out the cookies. Place 1 inch apart. on a tray lined with baking paper. use a 2 cm flower shaped/round fluted cutter to cut the centers out of half the cookies. Repeat till all the dough is used up.

bake cookies for 6-8 minutes, or just golden brown around the edges. let it cool.

Heat jam to thin it. Place a little softened jam in the center of the uncut cookie and then stick the cookie with the hole, on top. Leave to set and stick together.

I promise you there will be none left for storing!