These large flat biscuts are thin and crisp and are ideal either by themselves or served with poached fruits as a dessert.

Ingredients

• 250 grams butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups self raising flour
• pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 70 gram packet pecans

Method

1. Melt the butter over a moderate heat and stir in the sugar. Remove from the heat and let it cool for 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs.
2. Sift together the flour, salt and cinnamon and stir into the mixture.
3. Put heaped teaspoonfuls on greased baking trays and press a pecan into the centre of each. Leave room because these biscuits will spread.
4. Bake at 200ºC for 10 minutes until the biscuits have turned a deep brown. Cool on a cake rack and store in an airtight container.

Cooks Tips

- You can use other spices like nutmeg, mixed spice, cardamom or ginger, and walnuts instead of pecans.