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Maids of honour

Recipe under the cut !! Maids of honour are shortcust pastry with cake on top, with a jam filling !

Makes: 12

Oven temp: 180C

Ingredients for pastry:

125g plain flour

62g hard margarine

cold water

pinch of salt

Ingredients for cake:

50g soft margarine

50g self-raising flour

1 medium egg

50g caster sugar

Recipe!!

preheat oven

make pastry by rubbing in the flour, margarine and salt, then adding cold water until a dough is formed

cover pastry and allow it to chill

roll out pastry and use a fluted cutter to line 12 bun tins. Chill the pastry cases for 10 minutes

make the cake topping by creaming together the margarine and sugar, then mixing in the egg, then fold in the flour

add a teaspoon of jam to each of the pastry cases

top the pastry cases with cake mix, and make sure to spread it evenly

bake for 15 minutes and decorate with icing sugar

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