Iced Fingers

• 4 1/8 cups strong white bread flour
• 6 2/3 tablespoons caster sugar or homemade vanilla sugar
• 2 13/16 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 free range eggs
• 9/16 tablespoon fast action yeast sachets of
• 5/8 cup milk warm
• 5/8 cup water
• 1 2/3 cups icing sugar
• 5 teaspoons water or more
• 7/8 cup whipping cream or double
• 5 tablespoons apricot jam use 1 jar, warmed, sieved and cooled

1. To make the dough, place first 7 ingredients into the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with dough hook attachment, holding back a quarter of the water. On low speed let the hook stir the mixture then slowly add the remaining water to form a dough and then increase speed to knead for 5 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
2. Transfer the dough to a very lightly greased bowl, cover with a damp tea towel and leave to rise in a warm place for one hour.
3. Divide the dough into 12 pieces (use weighing scales and calculator for consistent size) then roll into balls and shape into fingers about 13cm/5in long.
4. Place the dough fingers onto a greased baking tray, leaving space for them to double in size, then cover with a damp tea towel, set aside in a warm place for 40 minutes - halfway through second rising Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7. They should just touch each other when they've risen. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes then set them aside to cool on a wire rack.
5. For the icing, sift the icing sugar in a wide bowl and gradually stir in the cold water to form a thick paste.nip the top of the cooled fingers into the icing, smoothing it with your finger, then leave to set on a wire rack.
6. Lightly whip the cream and spoon it into a piping bag fitted with a small nozzle. Spoon the strawberry jam into another piping bag.
7. Sliced the iced fingers horizontally, leaving one long edge intact. Pipe in a generous line of whipped cream into the middle of each finger, then a thinner line of jam. serve.

strong white bread flour, caster sugar, butter, range eggs, yeast sachets, milk, water, icing sugar, water, whipping cream, apricot

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Iced-Fingers-969917 (may not work)