I have always wondered what Lembas Bread were made of, turns out they're cookies/shortbread kind of thing.
I had to look for the best recipe that uses affordable but quality ingredients.
This is what I found from tumblr.
Ingredients
• 2 1/2 cups of flour
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt
• 8 tablespoons of cold butter (1 stick)
• 1/3 cup of brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon*
• 1/2 teaspoon maple syrup/honey/golden syrup
• 2/3 cup of milk/heavy cream (or more, if necessary)
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
Minutes to Prepare: 15
Minutes to Cook: 15
Number of Servings: 10
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 220 degrees Celcius (425 degrees Fahrenheit).
2) Mix the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl.
3) Add the butter and mix with a fork or a pastry cutter until the mixture resembles fine granules.
4) Add the sugar and cinnamon, and mix them thoroughly into the mixture.
5) Add the milk/cream, syrup/honey and vanilla and stir them in with a fork until a nice, thick dough forms.
6) Roll the dough out about 1/2 in thickness.
7) Cut out 3-inch squares and transfer the dough to a cookie sheet.
8) Criss-cross (DO NOT cut all the way) each square from corner-to-corner with a knife.
9) Bake for about 12 minutes or more (depending on the thickness of the bread) until it is set and lightly golden.
I tried making squares, I really did but it was too time consuming and my measurement prowess is...bleh so I simply used a small tupperware and used that to cut small circles on the dough. See the small eaten bit over there? Yeah, I ate a piece during making the rest of the batch.
This was a raging success, it was gone in 3 days like hot cake(pun intended). Out of the 18 pieces I baked, I ate only about 4...the rest sapu-ed by my mum and sis. FML.
*if you substitute this with powdered/ground ginger, you'd get a nice ginger cookie.
** credits goes to the original author of this recipe, whoever you are. THANK YOU!
***UPDATE! I found the recipe! It's HIYYAAAARRR.
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