If you’ve never made your own Viennese Swirls before, you’ll be amazed at how quick and easy this Viennese Swirls recipe is.
In fact, these elegant, buttery biscuits might look extra impressive but they’re surprisingly easy to make.
What are Viennese Swirls?
Viennese whirls are a sandwich biscuit made up of two shortbread biscuits held together with jam and buttercream. They are perfect for afternoon tea.
Our delicious Viennese Swirls recipe, we are using Sugar and Crumbs Mulled Wine Natural Flavoured Icing Sugar, or use your own favourite flavour.
They will keep up to a week, in an airtight container.
You can also use any flavour from our amazing range of Natural Flavoured Icing Sugars!
Ingredients
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 190 C, 375 F, Gas mark 5. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
2. Place the butter, beat well until light and fluffy.
3. Add Sugar and Crumbs Natural Flavoured Icing Sugar, plain flour, cornflour and baking powder into a food mixer, mix until smooth and well blended. If still very firm add a tablespoon of hot water.
4. Place a nozzle into a piping bag and then add the mixture to the bag. Pipe 15 swirls or roll balls of dough on to the baking tray making sure they are evenly spaced. If your mix is too soft place in the fridge for 10 minutes to firm.
5. Bake in the oven for 13-15 minutes or until they are golden in colour. Once cooked transfer to a wire cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
6. Repeat with the remaining dough until you have 30 biscuits in total to make 15 complete swirls.
7. Buttercream – Mix butter till very light and fluffy, now add your flavoured icing sugar, beat until combined, if required add a tablespoon of hot water to make a softer buttercream.
8. Once all the biscuits are cool, add Jam on one side of a biscuit, on the other biscuit add buttercream into the centre, sandwich together, now continue to do this with the other biscuits. Dust with some extra icing sugar. For a more professional look pipe your buttercream using a star nozzle eg 1M or 2D Wilton Tip or a Large round tip.
9. Serve and enjoy with all the family.
