Condensed milk biscuits

about 120 biscuits

330 g butter or margarine

250 ml (1 cup) sugar

2 eggs

80 ml (1/3 cup) condensed milk

15 ml (1 T) golden syrup

560 g (4 cup) cake flour

5 ml (1 t) salt

5 ml (1 t) cream of tartar

5 ml (1 t) bicarbonate of soda

DECORATION

1 25 g (¼ brick) soft butter or margarine

250 ml (1 cup) icing sugar

1 egg yolk

2.5 ml (½ t) glycerine

75 ml (5 e) cocoa

about 60 whole red cherries, halved

1. Preheat oven to 180 °C.
2. Cream butter and sugar with electric whisk till light yellow and creamy.
3. Add eggs one by one and whisk well after each addition.
4. Add condensed milk and golden syrup and stir well.
5. Sift together cake flour, salt, cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda.
6. Mix all ingredients together and leave dough to rest for half an hour.
7. Roll dough to about 5 mm thick and press out shapes. (We used a flower shape and pressed a hole in the middle of half of the biscuits.)
8. Place the biscuits on greased baking trays and bake for about 12 minutes and leave to cool off.
9. Sift icing sugar over biscuits with holes.
10. Decoration Mix ingredients for decoration till creamy and stick biscuits one on top of the other. Press half a cherry in the middle of the biscuits with holes.