Fig & Walnut Wafers

This wafer is similar to a biscotti in it’s ingredients and method of baking but sliced very thin after the first baking so that it can be eaten like a cheese biscuit. of course it can also be eaten with a coffee or tea since it is slightly sweet. I personally find that it goes really well with a blue vein cheese or a hard Italian cheese and a glass aromatic white wine. Perfect pre dinner nibbles!

 

 

 

Ingredients

Make about 40 wafers

2 eggs,
1/2 cup caster sugar,
1 cups (190g) flour, sifted,
½ cup walnuts,
½ cup figlets, remove stalks

Method – stage one

• Preheat the oven to 160 degrees centigrade. 
• Line a loaf tin with baking paper. 
• Whisk eggs and sugar until creamy. 
• Fold in flour, walnuts and figlets, gently. If you over mix the dough will become to dense. 
• Spoon the mixture in the tin and bake for 45 minutes or until lightly coloured. 
• Cool on a baking rack and then rest in fridge  overnight.

Method – stage two

• The following day (or at least several hours later after resting in fridge), preheat oven to 160 centigrade. 
• Slice the loaf thinly and arrange on baking trays lined with greaseproof paper. 
• Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
•  Cool on a baking rack and serve!

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