Coffee biscuits recipe

330 ml sugar

400 g butter

1 cup golden syrup or honey

1 tablespoon bicarbonate of soda

½ cup very strong black coffee

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

2 tablespoons strong instant coffee

2 tablespoons boiling water

375 ml white sugar

150 g butter or margarine

⅓ cup + 2 teaspoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Sift the cake flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl.

Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan and stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and cool.

Add vanilla to the cooled mixture.

Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in a little coffee. Add this mixture, and the rest of the coffee, to the cooled butter and syrup mixture.

Add to flour and mix well to form a soft dough. Cover and leave overnight.

Use a sausage maker with a cookie fitting to form long strips of dough.

Cut the cookies into even lengths. A square 5 cm cookie cutter is ideal.

Place on greased cookie sheets and bake at 200 ºC for about 12 minutes until golden brown and baked through.

Cool the biscuits on wire racks.

Dissolve the coffee in the boiling water and add the remaining ingredients, except the vanilla.

Boil for 8 minutes, uncovered.

Remove from the stove, and beat with a wooden spoon until thick and cooled.

Sandwich the biscuits together with the coffee fudge filling.