Aussie Melting Moments

• 250 g butter (at room temperature)
• 80 g powdered sugar icing (a confectioner's sugar/cornflour blend sold here in Oz; substitute icing sugar)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 265 g plain flour (1 3/4 cup)
• 50 g cornflour (cornstarch, (1/3 cup)
• icing sugar, for dusting
• FILLING
• 60 g butter (at room temperature)
• 80 g icing sugar (1/2 cup)
• 1 tablespoon cocoa

1. Preheat oven to 160 deg Celsius Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
2. Beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and vanilla essence with an electric mixer until pale and creamy.
3. Sift together flour and cornflour, and add to the butter mixture.
4. Mix together gently with a wooden spoon, and then with your hands.
5. Use lightly floured hands to roll mix into walnut-sized balls.
6. Put on trays about 5cm apart, and flatten with a lightly floured fork to about 1cm thick.
7. Bake for about 15 minutes, swapping trays in oven halfway through (ie. at 7 minutes), until cooked through.
8. Cool on baking trays.
9. Filling: Use an electric mixer to beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and cocoa together until well-combined.
10. Sandwich cooled biscuits together with the filling then lightly dust with icing sugar.
11. Vary the filling flavour by substituting the cocoa with one of the following:
12. grated rind of 1 orange.
13. grated rind of 1 lemon.
14. 1 tbsp of passionfruit pulp.

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/aussie-melting-moments-109894 (may not work)