Very vanillary vanilla biscuits sandwiched with a rich vanilla chocolate ganache. The biscuits are made with Chardonnay wine to give a slight fruity note and hint of sophistication. They’re just the thing for an afternoon tea party or to give as a gift.
When Karen over at Lavender and Lovage chose vanilla as the ingredient for this month’s We Should Cocoa, I knew immediatley I wanted to make biscuits. Vanilla is such a sweetly fragrant spice and it somehow seems to become more potent when combined with sugar in biscuits. Sandwiching the biscuits with a rich chocolate vanilla filling was no sooner thought of, than executed.
Vanilla Chardonnay Biscuits
It was no accident that I flavoured the biscuits I made to accompany last week’s raspberry syllabub with vanilla. A vanilla pod, vanilla sugar and a dusting of vanilla powder, made for a potent mix. The heady scent soared out of the biscuit tin as soon as the lid was prized off. Keeping CT away from said biscuit tin was a task too great for me and they disappeared rather faster than I had envisaged.
I made the ganache with dark chocolate, cream, a little butter and homemade vanilla extract. It tasted good just on its own, as well it might; but paired with the biscuits, it was a true taste sensation.
As we’d already chomped our way through some of the biscuits, I ended up with twenty to make ten vanilla chocolate biscuits. The recipe below is for eighteen.
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Vanilla Biscuits – The Recipe
Vanilla Chardonnay Biscuits Sandwiched with Vanilla Chocolate Ganache
Ingredients
Biscuits
- 200 g flour (half wholemeal, half plain white)
- 100 g unsalted butter
- 100 g vanilla sugar (I have a jar of golden caster sugar permanently on the go in which I place scraped out vanilla pods)
- 1 vanilla pod
- 4-6 tbsp Chardonnay wine
- Vanilla sugar powder for dusting.
Ganache
- 100 ml double cream
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar (see above)
- 100 g 70% dark chocolate
- 20 g unsalted butter
- ½ tsp vanilla extract (I use homemade)
Instructions
Biscuits
- Cut the butter into pieces and rub with flour and sugar between your fingers , or pulse in a food processor, until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod and stir into the mix. The scraped out pod can be added to your sugar jar.
- Add 4 tbsp (or more) of wine and stir in with a knife. It should be just damp enough, so that when you bring the mixture together with your hands, it comes together without breaking up, but is not wet.
- Gather the mixture into a ball with your hands, cover and leave to rest in the fridge for half an hour.
- Roll out on a floured board to about ¼ cm thick and cut out shapes with a small cutter (about 4-5 cm in diameter).
- Place on two lined baking trays and bake at 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4) for 12-15 minutes or until the biscuits are just starting to turn a pale golden colour.
- Leave for a couple of minutes to firm up, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Dust with vanilla sugar.
Ganache
- Dissolve the sugar in the cream over a gently heat, then bring to a near boil.Remove from the heat and add the chocolate.
- Leave for a couple of minutes for the chocolate to melt, then stir gently until just combined.
- Add the butter and again leave for a minute or so to melt.
- Add the vanilla extract and gently stir until everything is just combined.
- Leave for a few minutes until thick enough to spread. Top the inside of 18 of the biscuits with a teaspoonful of ganache, then gently press the other 18 biscuits on top.
- Leave for half an hour in a cool place to set.
Sharing
I’m sending these vanilla biscuits off to Karen over at Lavender and Lovage who is kindly hosting We Should Cocoa this month. As already stated the theme is vanilla and these biscuits are very vanillary.
They also go to CakeyBoi for Treat Petite. He is celebrating his blog’s 3rd birthday and Eurovision’s 60th. To mark the occasion we are all to make something which has a connection to one of the participating countries. Because ganache is decidedly French as is Chardonnay, I’m entering on behalf of France. Kat is his partner in crime over at The Baking Explorer.
The theme for this month’s Biscuit Barrel challenge is Party as there are birthday celebrations over at The Lass in the Apron. Embibed with wine, these biscuits are perfect for a celebratory party. Happy Birthday Alexandra.
I know that vanilla is sometimes thought of just too everyday and boring as a flavour but it’s a wonderful thing and these sound like wonderful biscuits. Around ten years ago there was a bit of a movement in restaurants to add vanilla to just about any savoury dish you could think of. Sometimes it worked but I don’t have happy memories of the vanilla mashed potatoes.
I am guilty of this Phil and tend to add vanilla just because that’s what you do rather than a flavour in its own right. I really enjoyed it being the star of this particular show, though I think I might balk at the mashed potatoes.
I agree with Dannii’s comment. I need that ganache on everything.
You’ve got me imagining ganache on scrambled eggs, roast potatoes and on salad now Bintu!
Great way to use a really delicious ganache. Fab biscuit, fab filling. GG
Thanks GG. It was really nice to have the contrast between the vanilla biscuit and chocolate ganache.
These look really delicious! I’m a big fan of biscuits 🙂 need to make some soon!
Thank you Melissa. I’m rather thinking I might need to make some more 😉
The only thing that beats a biscuit is two biscuits sandwiched together with something yummy!
Haha Sarah, my thoughts exactly 🙂
That ganache sounds dreamy! Perfect biscuit filling 😉
Thanks Emma, I did tell everyone I hadn’t given up on chocolate 😉
Please save me one! They look gorgeous
I’m thinking I might need to make some more Jo, they disappeared rather too quickly.
I love ganache! And vanilla, I add vanilla to most of the things that I bake haha these biscuits look very yummy
Thanks Diana. I use a lot of vanilla too, but I rarely make it the star of the show – so glad I did here.
Oh yum – yes please! You know my sweet tooth and these would hit the spot perfectly!
Thanks Stuart. Sadly their are none left or I’d send you one over 😉
That ganache look amazing! And sandwiched between two biscuits – absolutely lovely 🙂
The biscuits were delicious all on their own some Becca, but they were transformed into something even better with the ganache.
I would want to put that ganache on everything. These look really good 🙂
Thanks Dannii. Luckily, you are a lot more restrained than me 😉