Marmalade Cookies Recipe

After the success of my first ever batch of marmalade I was soon itching to make something using it - having it on toast in the morning just wasn't enough.
I had got an image in my head of something soft and sweet with bits of lovely tangy marmalade in it, perhaps a cake or biscuit. After some searching, and almost going for Margaret Hickey's Golden orange & walnut flapjacks on the BBC Good Food website, I found a recipe for Marmalade Cookies on the Supercook website.
I've adapted it below:

Ingredients

175g (6oz) plain flour
50g (2oz) ground almonds (I used oatbran instead)
100g (4oz) caster sugar
75g (3oz) butter, cut into small pieces
1 medium egg, beaten
3 tbsp orange marmalade

Method

Preheat the oven to 180ºC/ 350ºF/ Gas Mark 4. Grease and line 2 large baking trays with greaseproof paper.

Sieve the flour into a bowl and stir in the ground almonds (or oatbran) and sugar. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Add the egg and marmalade and bring the mixture together to form a soft dough. Wrap and chill for 30 minutes.

Divide the mixture into 16 pieces, and gently roll each piece into a ball. Place on the baking trays and press down to form rounds approx. 5cm (2 inch) in diameter.

Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes until lightly golden. Allow to cool on the baking trays, then transfer to a wire rack.

Makes: 16

I found the dough very sticky (I was probably over enthusiastic with the marmalade) , so used some plain flour when rolling it into balls.
These were pretty ordinary soft biscuits, until you bit into a piece of marmalade when they were delicious. Lovely with a cup of Tea, and a great way to get two doses of marmalade a day.