Scottish Danties
- 1 lb margarine
- 4 ounces icing sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 lb plain flour
- 6 ounces icing sugar
- 2 ounces butter
- 4 ounces chocolate
- Pre-heat oven to 400F
- Cream margarine and sugar together until soft and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg, then add the flour gradually until all is combined into the mixture.
- Grease three baking sheets, then using a large star tube, pipe the mixture on the trays, making 36 biscuit shapes.
- Bake in a hot oven, 400F, for 10-15 minutes,.
- keeping a close eye on them to see that they do not brown too quickly.
- Cool on wire racks, then dip half of the biscuits into melted chocolate to half their width.
- Wait until the chocolate has hardened, then sandwich together each chocolate-coated half with a plain half, using buttercream made by creaming together the icing sugar and butter.
- Place each dainty in a paper case.
margarine, icing sugar, egg, flour, icing sugar, butter, chocolate
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/scottish-danties-371399 (may not work)